Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2853
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2043
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Molo
Thank You
谢谢
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
你好吗？
Unjani
Good Night
晚安
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
晚上好
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
下午好
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
早上好
Molo
Please
请
Ndicela
Sorry
遗憾
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
再见
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
我爱你
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
原谅我
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
South Africa
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Thembu
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
South Africa
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
South Africa
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
cantonais
xhosa
German Name
Kantonesisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
17th century
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
isiXhosa
Language Position
121
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Xhosa
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
xho
ISO 639 2/B
yue
xho
ISO 639 3
No data available
xho
ISO 639 6
yue
xho
Glottocode
cant1236
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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