Countries
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2824
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
您好
Habari
Thank You
谢谢
Asante
How Are You?
你好吗?
Habari gani?
Good Night
晚安
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
晚上好
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
下午好
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
早上好
Habari za asubuhi
Please
请
tafadhali
Sorry
遗憾
pole
Bye
再见
bye
I Love You
我爱你
nakupenda
Excuse Me
原谅我
Samahani
Dialects
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million150.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %NA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million15.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
-9999
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
Not Available
swahili
German Name
Not Available
Swahili
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Swahili people or Waswahili
History
Origin
17th century
6th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
Branch
Not Available
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Swahili
Language Position
NANA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
No data available
sw
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
swa
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
swa
ISO 639 3
No data available
swa
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cant1236
swah1254
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-m
Types of Language
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available