Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2837
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2046
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
104
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Mhoro
Thank You
谢谢
Waita zvako
How Are You?
你好吗？
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
晚安
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
晚上好
Manheru
Good Afternoon
下午好
Masikati
Good Morning
早上好
Mangwanani
Please
请
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
遗憾
Ndineurombo
Bye
再见
bye
I Love You
我爱你
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
原谅我
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Hwesa
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Karanga
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
52.00 million8.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
chiShona
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
cantonais
shona
German Name
Kantonesisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Shona people
Origin
17th century
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Shona
Language Position
1107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Shona
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
sna
ISO 639 2/B
yue
sna
ISO 639 3
No data available
sna
ISO 639 6
yue
sna
Glottocode
cant1236
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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