Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Belarus, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
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.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2848
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2039
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
dobry dzień
Thank You
谢谢
Dziakuj
How Are You?
你好吗?
Jak vy ?
Good Night
晚安
Dabranač
Good Evening
晚上好
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
下午好
dobry dzień
Good Morning
早上好
Dobraj ranicy
Please
请
Kali laska
Sorry
遗憾
Vybačajcie
Bye
再见
da pabačennia
I Love You
我爱你
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
原谅我
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
North-East Belarus
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
South-West Belarus
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Middle Belarus
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million9.63 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million5.89 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
cantonais
biélorusse
German Name
Kantonesisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Belarusians
Origin
17th century
18th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Belarusian
Language Position
179
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
be
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
bel
ISO 639 2/B
yue
bel
ISO 639 3
No data available
bel
ISO 639 6
yue
bel
Glottocode
cant1236
bela1254
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-