Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Indonesia, Island of Madura
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
- Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Malay and Javanese Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2827
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Halo
Thank You
谢谢
matur nuwun
How Are You?
你好吗?
piye kabare?
Good Night
晚安
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
晚上好
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
下午好
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
早上好
Sugeng énjing
Please
请
tolong
Sorry
遗憾
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
再见
Pamit
I Love You
我爱你
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
原谅我
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Kangean
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00110,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Bawean
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.008,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Bangkalan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.008,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million15.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.23 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
52.00 million15.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
71.00 million14.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Madurese
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
French Name
cantonais
madourais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Maduresisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[madura]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Madurese
Origin
17th century
8th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Madurese
Language Position
169
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Madurese Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
mad
ISO 639 2/B
yue
mad
ISO 639 3
No data available
mad
ISO 639 6
yue
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Glottocode
cant1236
madu1247
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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