Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Chinese Language
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2831
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
alo
Thank You
谢谢
multumesc
How Are You?
你好吗?
ce mai faci?
Good Night
晚安
noapte Buna
Good Evening
晚上好
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
下午好
buna Ziua
Good Morning
早上好
bună Dimineața
Please
请
Vă Rog
Sorry
遗憾
scuze
Bye
再见
La revedere
I Love You
我爱你
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
原谅我
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Aromanian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Croatia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Română
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
cantonais
roumain; moldave
German Name
Kantonesisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Romanians
Origin
17th century
1521
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Romanian
Language Position
136
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
ron
ISO 639 2/B
yue
rum
ISO 639 3
No data available
ron
ISO 639 6
yue
ron
Glottocode
cant1236
roma1327
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic