Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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 Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2825
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2020
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
102
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Halo
Thank You
谢谢
Hvala
How Are You?
你好吗？
Kako se imate?
Good Night
晚安
Lahko noč
Good Evening
晚上好
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
下午好
Dober dan
Good Morning
早上好
Dobro jutro
Please
请
Prosim
Sorry
遗憾
Oprostite
Bye
再见
Nasvidenje
I Love You
我爱你
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
原谅我
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Resian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Italy
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Styrian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
348
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
cantonais
slovène
German Name
Kantonesisch
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Slovenes
Origin
17th century
972-1093
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Slovene
Language Position
128
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
slv
ISO 639 2/B
yue
slv
ISO 639 3
No data available
slv
ISO 639 6
yue
slv
Glottocode
cant1236
slov1268
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional