Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
China
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
China
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Uzbek Language
Derived From
-
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2836
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2027
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
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
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
谢谢
rakhmat
How Are You?
你好吗？
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
晚安
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
晚上好
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
下午好
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
早上好
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
请
birdam
Sorry
遗憾
kachurung
Bye
再见
Khayr khosh
I Love You
我爱你
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
原谅我
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Turpan
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
China
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Hotan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
China
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
China
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
37
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
cantonais
ouïgour
German Name
Kantonesisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Uyghur
Origin
17th century
11
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Uyghur
Language Position
198
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Uyghur
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
uig
ISO 639 2/B
yue
uig
ISO 639 3
No data available
uig
ISO 639 6
yue
uig
Glottocode
cant1236
uigh1240
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-