Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
West Java
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
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.
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Madurese and Malay Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2833
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2016
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin, Sundanese
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 weeks40 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Halo
Thank You
谢谢
Nuhun
How Are You?
你好吗?
Kumaha kabarna?
Good Night
晚安
Wilujeng kulem
Good Evening
晚上好
Wilujeng wengi
Good Afternoon
下午好
Wilujeng siang
Good Morning
早上好
Wilujeng énjing
Please
请
Mangga
Sorry
遗憾
Hapunten
Bye
再见
Wilujeng angkat
I Love You
我爱你
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
Excuse Me
原谅我
Punten
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Western dialect
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Banten
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0040,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Northern dialect
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bogor
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0040,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Priangan dialect
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bandung
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0040,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million39.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Basa Sunda
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Priangan, Sunda
French Name
cantonais
soundanais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Sundanesisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[sʊnˈdæniːs]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
Origin
17th century
5th century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Sundanese
Language Position
142
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Sundanese Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
su
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
sun
ISO 639 2/B
yue
sun
ISO 639 3
No data available
sun
ISO 639 6
yue
sun
Glottocode
cant1236
sund1251
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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