Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2833
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2028
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
谢谢
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
你好吗?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
晚安
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
晚上好
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
下午好
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
早上好
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
请
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
遗憾
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
再见
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
我爱你
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
原谅我
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kartli
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
52.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
71.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
cantonais
géorgien
German Name
Kantonesisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Georgians
Origin
17th century
5th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
-
Southern
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Georgian
Language Position
1120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
kat
ISO 639 2/B
yue
geo
ISO 639 3
No data available
kat
ISO 639 6
yue
kat
Glottocode
cant1236
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic