Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Zambia
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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Zulu language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2831
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2018
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
105
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks32 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Moni
Thank You
谢谢
Zikomo
How Are You?
你好吗?
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
晚安
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
晚上好
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
下午好
Masana abwino
Good Morning
早上好
M'mawa wabwino
Please
请
Chonde
Sorry
遗憾
pepani
Bye
再见
anatsanzikana
I Love You
我爱你
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
原谅我
Pepani
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Kasungu
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million12.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
cantonais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Kantonesisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Chewa people
Origin
17th century
15th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Chewa
Language Position
127
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
nya
ISO 639 2/B
yue
nya
ISO 639 3
No data available
nya
ISO 639 6
yue
nya
Glottocode
cant1236
nyan1308
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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