Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2851
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2035
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
105
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Namaskara
Thank You
谢谢
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
你好吗？
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
晚安
yedde rathre
Good Evening
晚上好
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
下午好
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
早上好
yedde kaande
Please
请
Daya maltadu
Sorry
遗憾
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
再见
Barpe
I Love You
我爱你
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
原谅我
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Jain
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Girijan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Tulu
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
cantonais
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German Name
Kantonesisch
Tulu
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Tuluva
Origin
17th century
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Tulu
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Tulu
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
yue
tul
ISO 639 3
No data available
tcy
ISO 639 6
yue
tcy
Glottocode
cant1236
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
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