Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2830
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2025
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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Hello
您好
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
谢谢
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
你好吗?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
晚安
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
晚上好
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
早上好
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
请
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
遗憾
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
再见
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
我爱你
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
原谅我
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Serbia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million8.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Montenegrin
French Name
cantonais
serbe
German Name
Kantonesisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Serbs
Origin
17th century
11th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Serbian
Language Position
144
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
srp
ISO 639 2/B
yue
srp
ISO 639 3
No data available
srp
ISO 639 6
yue
srp
Glottocode
cant1236
serb1264
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-