Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2846
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2038
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
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
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Ahoj
Thank You
谢谢
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
你好吗？
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
晚安
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
晚上好
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
下午好
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
早上好
Dobré ráno
Please
请
Prosím
Sorry
遗憾
Pardón!
Bye
再见
Dovidenia
I Love You
我爱你
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
原谅我
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
cantonais
slovaque
German Name
Kantonesisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Slovaks
Origin
17th century
6th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Slovak
Language Position
127
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
slk
ISO 639 2/B
yue
slo
ISO 639 3
No data available
slk
ISO 639 6
yue
slk
Glottocode
cant1236
slov1269
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic