Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Burkina Faso
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Dagbani Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2826
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2016
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Kia ora
Thank You
谢谢
Laafi bala
How Are You?
你好吗？
Laafi beme ?
Good Night
晚安
Ne y yungo
Good Evening
晚上好
ne y zabre
Good Afternoon
下午好
Kia ora
Good Morning
早上好
Ne y yibeogo
Please
请
gafare
Sorry
遗憾
gafare
Bye
再见
Wend na kon-d nindaare
I Love You
我爱你
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Excuse Me
原谅我
Y gafare
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Ouapadoupou
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Saremde
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Taolende
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million7.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Mosse
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
French Name
cantonais
moré
German Name
Kantonesisch
Mossi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[mɔ̀ːsì]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Mossi
Origin
17th century
11th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Gur (Voltaic)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Mossi
Language Position
137
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Mossi Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
mos
ISO 639 2/B
yue
mos
ISO 639 3
No data available
mos
ISO 639 6
yue
mos
Glottocode
cant1236
moss1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
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