Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
India, Pakistan, Sindh
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
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
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 first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Gujarati
Derived From
-
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2864
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2042
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Assalam O Alaikum
Thank You
谢谢
Meharbani
How Are You?
你好吗？
Kehra haal aahin
Good Night
晚安
tava kia aayo
Good Evening
晚上好
Sham Jo Salam
Good Afternoon
下午好
Assalam o Alaikum
Good Morning
早上好
Subho Bakhair
Please
请
Mehrbani
Sorry
遗憾
Moon khe afsos aahe
Bye
再见
Allah Wahi
I Love You
我爱你
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
Excuse Me
原谅我
Maaf Kajo
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Siraiki
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Upper Sindh
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0025,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Vicholi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Central Sindh
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0025,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Lari
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Lower Sindh
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0025.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million29.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
سنڌي
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Sindhi
French Name
cantonais
sindhi
German Name
Kantonesisch
Sindhi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[sɪndi]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Sindhi people
Origin
17th century
711 A.D
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Sindhi
Language Position
150
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Sindhi
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sd
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
snd
ISO 639 2/B
yue
snd
ISO 639 3
No data available
snd
ISO 639 6
yue
snd
Glottocode
cant1236
sind1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-