Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Turkey, Uzbekistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
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.
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2024
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
102
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Salom
Thank You
谢谢
Rakhmat
How Are You?
你好吗?
Qalay siz?
Good Night
晚安
Hayirli tun
Good Evening
晚上好
Hayirli kech
Good Afternoon
下午好
Hayirli kun
Good Morning
早上好
Hayirli tong
Please
请
Iltimos
Sorry
遗憾
Kechiring!
Bye
再见
Xayr
I Love You
我爱你
Sizni sevaman
Excuse Me
原谅我
Iltimos! Menga qarang
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Tashkent
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
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How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0032,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Afghan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
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How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0032,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Ferghana
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
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How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0032,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
52.00 million26.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
71.00 million32.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
cantonais
ouszbek
German Name
Kantonesisch
Usbekisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[oʻzbek]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Uzbek
Origin
17th century
9th–12th centuries AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
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Turkic
Branch
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Southestern(Chagatai)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Chagatay
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Uzbek
Language Position
153
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Uzbek
Scope
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Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
uz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
uzb
ISO 639 2/B
yue
uzb
ISO 639 3
No data available
uzb
ISO 639 6
yue
uzb
Glottocode
cant1236
uzbe1247
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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