Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Israel, Mauritius
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
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.
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Konkani Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2852
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
Thank You
谢谢
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
你好吗？
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
Good Night
晚安
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
Good Evening
晚上好
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
Good Afternoon
下午好
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
Good Morning
早上好
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
Please
请
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
遗憾
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
Bye
再见
बाय (Bāya)
I Love You
我爱你
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
Excuse Me
原谅我
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Maharashtrian Konkani
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Kokan
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.002,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Varhadi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Vidarbha
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Khandeshi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Khandesh
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
342
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million71.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %1.10 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million68.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
मराठी (marāṭhī)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
French Name
cantonais
marathe
German Name
Kantonesisch
Marathi
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Marathi people
Origin
17th century
10th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Marathi
Language Position
117
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
mr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
mar
ISO 639 2/B
yue
mar
ISO 639 3
No data available
mar
ISO 639 6
yue
mar
Glottocode
cant1236
mara1378
Linguasphere
No data available
omr
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-