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Cantonese
Cantonese

Spanish
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Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara

Total No. Of Countries

246
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
Spain

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Hawaii
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española

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.
  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.

Similar To

Chinese Language
French Language

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2827
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2022
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好
hola

Thank You

谢谢
Gracias

How Are You?

你好吗?
Cómo estás?

Good Night

晚安
Buenas Noches

Good Evening

晚上好
Bonne soirée

Good Afternoon

下午好
Buenas Tardes

Good Morning

早上好
Buenos Días

Please

Por Favor

Sorry

遗憾
triste

Bye

再见
adiós

I Love You

我爱你
Te Quiero

Excuse Me

原谅我
Discúlpeme

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
Mexican Spanish

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
Mexico

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.00105,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
Cuban Spanish

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Cuba

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.0011,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Puerto Rican Spanish

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Puerto Rico

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.003,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

321
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million489.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %6.15 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million410.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million89.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
Español

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Castellano, Castilian, Español

French Name

cantonais
espagnol; castillan

German Name

Kantonesisch
Spanisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
Spanish people

History

Origin

17th century
210 BC

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Romance

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Spanish and Spanish

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
Pluricentric Standard Spanish

Language Position

12
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
Signed Spanish

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
es

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
spa

ISO 639 2/B

yue
spa

ISO 639 3

No data available
spa

ISO 639 6

yue
spa

Glottocode

cant1236
stan1288

Linguasphere

No data available
51-AAA-b

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Cantonese and Spanish Alphabets

Cantonese and Spanish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Spanish. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Spanish Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Cantonese and Spanish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Spanish languages. The Cantonese phonology consist Cantonese vowels and Cantonese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Cantonese greetings vs Spanish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Spanish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Cantonese and Spanish 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 Spanish dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Spanish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Spanish Dialects are spoken in different Spanish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Spanish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Spanish dialects include: Mexican Spanish , Cuban Spanish. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Cantonese and Spanish Speaking population

Cantonese and Spanish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Spanish languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Spanish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Spanish language is 6.15 %. 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 Spanish on Cantonese vs Spanish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Spanish Language Codes

Cantonese and Spanish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Spanish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.