Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2830
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2025
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
105
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Zdravo
Thank You
谢谢
Hvala
How Are You?
你好吗?
Kako si?
Good Night
晚安
Laku noc
Good Evening
晚上好
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
下午好
Dobar dan
Good Morning
早上好
Dobro jutro
Please
请
molim vas
Sorry
遗憾
Oprostite
Bye
再见
Zbogom
I Love You
我爱你
Volim te
Excuse Me
原谅我
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Croatia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Croatia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
cantonais
bosniaque
German Name
Kantonesisch
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Bosniaks
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
Bosnian
Language Position
124
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
bos
ISO 639 2/B
yue
bos
ISO 639 3
No data available
bos
ISO 639 6
yue
boss
Glottocode
cant1236
bosn1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-