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
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
Not Available
Latin
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Spanish-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？
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
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Mexican Spanish
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Mexico
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Cuban Spanish
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Cuba
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Puerto Rican Spanish
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Puerto Rico
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Español
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Castellano, Castilian, Español
French Name
Not Available
espagnol; castillan
German Name
Not Available
Spanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
Origin
17th century
210 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Romance
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Spanish
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
es
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
spa
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
spa
ISO 639 3
No data available
spa
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cant1236
stan1288
Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAA-b
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic