Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Czech Republic, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Czech Republic
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Institute of the Czech Language
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.
- The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2842
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
832
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2032
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
105
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
ahoj
Thank You
谢谢
děkuji
How Are You?
你好吗？
Jak se máš?
Good Night
晚安
dobrou noc
Good Evening
晚上好
dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
下午好
dobré odpoledne
Good Morning
早上好
dobré ráno
Please
请
prosím
Sorry
遗憾
litovat
Bye
再见
sbohem
I Love You
我爱你
Miluji tě
Excuse Me
原谅我
promiňte
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Chod
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Chodsko, Bohemia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Lach
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0010,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Moravian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00108,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
čeština / český jazyk
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bohemian, Cestina
French Name
cantonais
tchèque
German Name
Kantonesisch
Tschechisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Czechs
Origin
17th century
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Czech
Language Position
173
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Czech Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
cs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
ces
ISO 639 2/B
yue
cze
ISO 639 3
No data available
ces
ISO 639 6
yue
ces
Glottocode
cant1236
czec1258
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-da
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic