Countries
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
South America
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.
- One of the most widely spoken indigenous language in the America is Quechua.
- Quechua language has borrowed many words from Spanish.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Aymara and Guarani Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2831
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2026
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
106
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
您好
Rimaykullayki
Thank You
谢谢
Solpayki
How Are You?
你好吗?
Allillanchu
Good Night
晚安
Allin tuta
Good Evening
晚上好
Wuynas nuchis
Good Afternoon
下午好
Wuynas tardis
Good Morning
早上好
Wuynus diyas
Please
请
jamuspa
Sorry
遗憾
Pampachaykuway
Bye
再见
bye
I Love You
我爱你
Kuyayki
Excuse Me
原谅我
Pampachaway
Dialects
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Ancash
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Peru
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00920,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Huánuco
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Peru
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00190,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Yaru
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Peru
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00150,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million8.90 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
52.00 million8.90 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Qhichwa
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
North La Paz Quechua
French Name
cantonais
quechua
German Name
Kantonesisch
Quechua-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈketʃwa]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Quechua
History
Origin
17th century
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Quechumaran Family
Subgroup
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Andean Equatorial
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Quechua
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Quechua
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
No data available
qu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
que
ISO 639 2/B
yue
que
ISO 639 3
No data available
que
ISO 639 6
yue
que
Glottocode
cant1236
quec1387
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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Agglutinative, Synthetic