Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2857
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2050
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Sawubona
Thank You
谢谢
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
你好吗？
unjani
Good Night
晚安
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
晚上好
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
下午好
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
早上好
okuhle ekuseni
Please
请
Ngiyacela
Sorry
遗憾
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
再见
bye
I Love You
我爱你
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
原谅我
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Qwabe
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
cantonais
zoulou
German Name
Kantonesisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Zulu people
Origin
17th century
19
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Deep Zulu
Language Position
187
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
zul
ISO 639 2/B
yue
zul
ISO 639 3
No data available
zul
ISO 639 6
yue
zul
Glottocode
cant1236
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-