Countries
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Somali Language
Derived From
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2834
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2024
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
105
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
您好
akkam
Thank You
谢谢
Galatoomi
How Are You?
你好吗?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
晚安
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
晚上好
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
下午好
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
早上好
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
请
Maaloo
Sorry
遗憾
naa dhiisi
Bye
再见
Nagayattii!
I Love You
我爱你
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
原谅我
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Borana
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Orma
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kenya
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Wata
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kenya
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
317
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.36 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
cantonais
galla
German Name
Kantonesisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Oromos
History
Origin
17th century
16
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
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Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
191
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
No data available
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
orm
ISO 639 2/B
yue
orm
ISO 639 3
No data available
orm
ISO 639 6
yue
orm
Glottocode
cant1236
nucl1736
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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