Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
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
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Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
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Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
你好吗？
Ako sa máte?
Good Evening
晚上好
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
下午好
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
早上好
Dobré ráno
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
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
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Slovak
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Slovak Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
sk
ISO 639 3
No data available
slk
Glottocode
cant1236
slov1269
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-db
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic
All Cantonese and Slovak Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Slovak dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Slovak language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Slovak Dialects are spoken in different Slovak speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Slovak Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Slovak dialects include: Eastern Slovak , Central Slovak. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Slovak Speaking population
Cantonese and Slovak speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Slovak languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Slovak Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Slovak language is 0.14 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Slovak on Cantonese vs Slovak where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Slovak Language Codes
Cantonese and Slovak language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Slovak Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.