Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Poland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
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.
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2832
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2023
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
103
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
cześć
Thank You
谢谢
dziękuję
How Are You?
你好吗？
Jak się masz?
Good Night
晚安
dobranoc
Good Evening
晚上好
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
下午好
dzień dobry
Good Morning
早上好
Dzień dobry
Please
请
proszę
Sorry
遗憾
Przepraszam
Bye
再见
do widzenia
I Love You
我爱你
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
原谅我
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Kashubian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Poland
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00108,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Masovian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Poland
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Silesian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00510,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
334
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.61 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Polski
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
cantonais
polonais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Polnisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Poles
Origin
17th century
1270
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Polish
Language Position
124
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
pl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
pol
ISO 639 2/B
yue
pol
ISO 639 3
No data available
pol
ISO 639 6
yue
pols
Glottocode
cant1236
poli1260
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-cc
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic