Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2836
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2029
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
105
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Përshëndetje
Thank You
谢谢
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
你好吗？
Si jeni?
Good Night
晚安
natën e mirë
Good Evening
晚上好
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
下午好
mirëdita
Good Morning
早上好
mirëmengjes
Please
请
Ju lutem
Sorry
遗憾
Me fal
Bye
再见
mirupafshim
I Love You
我爱你
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
原谅我
Më falni
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Italy
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Shqip
French Name
cantonais
albanais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Albanians
Origin
17th century
1462 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Albanian
Language Position
114
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
yue
alb
ISO 639 3
No data available
sqi
ISO 639 6
yue
sqi
Glottocode
cant1236
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data available
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic