Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Ireland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Ireland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Ireland
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
United Kingdom
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Foras na Gaeilge
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 Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Scottish Gaelic and Welsh Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2818
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2013
9
60
👆🏻
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Dia dhuit
Thank You
谢谢
Go raibh maith agat
How Are You?
你好吗?
Conas atá tú ?
Good Night
晚安
Oíche mhaith
Good Evening
晚上好
Tráthnóna maith duit
Good Afternoon
下午好
Tráthnóna maith duit
Good Morning
早上好
Dia dhuit ar maidin
Please
请
le do thoil
Sorry
遗憾
Tá brón orm
Bye
再见
Slán
I Love You
我爱你
Is breá liom thú
Excuse Me
原谅我
Gabh mo leithscéal
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Connacht Irish
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Connacht
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00100,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Munster Irish
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Munster
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00150,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Ulster Irish
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Ulster
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million1.79 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million0.14 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million1.65 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
French Name
cantonais
irlandais moyen
German Name
Kantonesisch
Mittelirisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Irish people
Origin
17th century
c. 750
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Celtic
Branch
-
Goidelic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
Language Position
125
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Irish Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ga
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
gle
ISO 639 2/B
yue
gle
ISO 639 3
No data available
gle
ISO 639 6
yue
gle
Glottocode
cant1236
iris1253
Linguasphere
No data available
50-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional