Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Thailand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2844
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
832
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2044
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Thai
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
谢谢
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
你好吗？
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
晚安
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
晚上好
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
下午好
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
早上好
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
请
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
遗憾
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
再见
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
我爱你
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
原谅我
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Isan
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Isan
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.85 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million20.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
cantonais
thaï
German Name
Kantonesisch
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
17th century
1283 CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
-
Tai
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Thai
Language Position
147
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Thai Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
tha
ISO 639 2/B
yue
tha
ISO 639 3
No data available
tha
ISO 639 6
yue
tha
Glottocode
cant1236
thai1261
Linguasphere
No data available
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating