Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Rajastan, India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Rajastan, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Nepal, Pakistan
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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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.
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Derived From
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Gujarati Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2842
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2032
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
khammaghani
Thank You
谢谢
dhanyavaad
How Are You?
你好吗？
Kikan ho sa?
Good Night
晚安
shubh raatri
Good Evening
晚上好
Shubh Honjh
Good Afternoon
下午好
Shubh Befar
Good Morning
早上好
Shubh Havar
Please
请
kirpa
Sorry
遗憾
Maaf Karo
Bye
再见
bye
I Love You
我爱你
main tanne pyaar karoon
Excuse Me
原谅我
maaf karo
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Jogi
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
India
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0014,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Bagri
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0014,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Dhundhari
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million22.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million14.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Marwari
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
French Name
cantonais
marvari
German Name
Kantonesisch
Marwari
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[məˈrwɑːɾi]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Marwari or Marwadi
Origin
17th century
16
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Marwari
Language Position
172
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
mwr
ISO 639 2/B
yue
mwr
ISO 639 3
No data available
mwr
ISO 639 6
yue
mwr
Glottocode
cant1236
raja1256
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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