Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
20
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
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.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2843
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2034
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
谢谢
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
你好吗?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
晚安
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
晚上好
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
下午好
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
早上好
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
请
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
遗憾
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
再见
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
我爱你
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
原谅我
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.43 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
52.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
cantonais
bhojpuri
German Name
Kantonesisch
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Bhojpuri speakers
Origin
17th century
19th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Bhojpuri
Language Position
137
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
bho
ISO 639 2/B
yue
bho
ISO 639 3
No data available
bho
ISO 639 6
yue
bho
Glottocode
cant1236
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-sa
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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