Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, 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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Bengali Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2847
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2031
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
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 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
谢谢
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
你好吗?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
晚安
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
晚上好
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
下午好
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
早上好
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
请
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
遗憾
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
再见
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
我爱你
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
原谅我
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Surati
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
52.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
71.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
cantonais
goudjrati
German Name
Kantonesisch
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Gujaratis
Origin
17th century
15
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Gujarati
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
guj
ISO 639 2/B
yue
guj
ISO 639 3
No data available
guj
ISO 639 6
yue
guj
Glottocode
cant1236
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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