Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
New Zealand
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
New Zealand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Australia, Oceania
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Māori Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Tahitian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2820
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2010
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
102
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Hello
Thank You
谢谢
Mauruuru koutou
How Are You?
你好吗？
E pēhea ana koe ?
Good Night
晚安
Night pai
Good Evening
晚上好
pai ahiahi
Good Afternoon
下午好
Afternoon pai
Good Morning
早上好
Morning pai
Please
请
Tēnā
Sorry
遗憾
Aroha mai
Bye
再见
poroporoaki
I Love You
我爱你
Aroha ahau ki a koe
Excuse Me
原谅我
tukua ahau
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
South Island Māori
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00150,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Western North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00150,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Eastern North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00150,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.18 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million0.18 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million0.10 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
te Reo Māori
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
New Zealand Maori
French Name
cantonais
maori
German Name
Kantonesisch
Maori-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈmaɔɾi]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Māori people
Origin
17th century
1814
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Polynesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Maori
Language Position
126
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Maori Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
mi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
mri
ISO 639 2/B
yue
mao
ISO 639 3
No data available
mri
ISO 639 6
yue
mri
Glottocode
cant1236
maor1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-