Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
India
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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2842
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2031
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
谢谢
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
你好吗？
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
晚安
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
晚上好
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
下午好
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
早上好
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
请
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
遗憾
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
再见
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
我爱你
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
原谅我
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Baleswari
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
India
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Ganjami
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Kosli
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00520,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million33.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
cantonais
oriya
German Name
Kantonesisch
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Odias
Origin
17th century
3 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Odia
Language Position
132
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Indian Signing System
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
ori
ISO 639 2/B
yue
ori
ISO 639 3
No data available
ori
ISO 639 6
yue
ori
Glottocode
cant1236
macr1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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