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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Old German Language
Derived From
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Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2852
18
247
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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 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
谢谢
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
你好吗？
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
晚安
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
晚上好
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
下午好
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
早上好
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
请
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
遗憾
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
再见
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
我爱你
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
原谅我
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Not present
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
-
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Not present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Not present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
30
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
cantonais
sanskrit
German Name
Kantonesisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
17th century
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Sanskrit
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
-
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
san
ISO 639 2/B
yue
san
ISO 639 3
No data available
san
ISO 639 6
yue
san
Glottocode
cant1236
sans1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic