Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Hawaii
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
hallo
Thank You
谢谢
takk
How Are You?
你好吗？
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
晚安
god natt
Good Evening
晚上好
god kveld
Good Afternoon
下午好
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
早上好
god morgen
Please
请
Vær så snill
Sorry
遗憾
unnskyld
Bye
再见
ha det
I Love You
我爱你
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
原谅我
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Sogn
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Norsk
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Norsk
French Name
cantonais
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Kantonesisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Norwegians
Origin
17th century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
118
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Norwegian
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
nor
ISO 639 2/B
yue
nor
ISO 639 3
No data available
nor
ISO 639 6
yue
nor
Glottocode
cant1236
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional