Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Hawaii
India
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
-
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2852
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2040
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
خوش آمديد
Thank You
谢谢
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
你好吗？
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
晚安
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
晚上好
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
下午好
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
早上好
گڈ مارننگ
Please
请
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
遗憾
معاف کرنا
Bye
再见
الوداع
I Love You
我爱你
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
原谅我
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Dakhini
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
India
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
South Asia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bihari
French Name
cantonais
ourdou
German Name
Kantonesisch
Urdu
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
17th century
12th Century CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
120
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Urdu
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
urd
ISO 639 2/B
yue
urd
ISO 639 3
No data available
urd
ISO 639 6
yue
urd
Glottocode
cant1236
urdu1245
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional