Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
211
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2829
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
👆🏻
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Merhaba
Thank You
谢谢
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
你好吗？
Nasılsın?
Good Night
晚安
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
晚上好
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
下午好
Tünaydın
Good Morning
早上好
günaydın
Please
请
lütfen
Sorry
遗憾
üzgünüm
Bye
再见
Hoşçakal
I Love You
我爱你
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
原谅我
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
cantonais
turc
German Name
Kantonesisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Turkish
Origin
17th century
c. 1350
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
-
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
119
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
tur
ISO 639 2/B
yue
tur
ISO 639 3
No data available
tur
ISO 639 6
yue
tur
Glottocode
cant1236
nucl1301
Linguasphere
No data available
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic