Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
29
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2830
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2025
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
103
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
bok
Thank You
谢谢
hvala
How Are You?
你好吗？
kako si
Good Night
晚安
laku noć
Good Evening
晚上好
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
下午好
dobar dan
Good Morning
早上好
dobro jutro
Please
请
molim
Sorry
遗憾
Oprostite
Bye
再见
Doviđenja
I Love You
我爱你
Volim te
Excuse Me
原谅我
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Chakavian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Croatia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Croatia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
379
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Hrvatski
French Name
cantonais
croate
German Name
Kantonesisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Croats
Origin
17th century
9th 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
yue
hrv
ISO 639 3
No data available
hrv
ISO 639 6
yue
hrv
Glottocode
cant1236
croa1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic