Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Munda Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2830
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Henda ho
Thank You
谢谢
Adi Johar
How Are You?
你好吗？
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
晚安
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
晚上好
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
下午好
संध्यायान
Good Morning
早上好
Boge Setak’
Please
请
দয়া করে
Sorry
遗憾
দুঃখিত
Bye
再见
Hariau
I Love You
我爱你
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
原谅我
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Mahali
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
India
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Not present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Not present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
cantonais
santal
German Name
Kantonesisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
17th century
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Santali
Language Position
141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Santali Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
sat
ISO 639 2/B
yue
sat
ISO 639 3
No data available
sat
ISO 639 6
yue
sat
Glottocode
cant1236
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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