Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Czech Republic
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.
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
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Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2837
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
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
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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
Xin chào
Thank You
谢谢
Cam on
How Are You?
你好吗?
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
晚安
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
晚上好
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
下午好
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
早上好
Chào buổi sáng
Please
请
xin vui lòng
Sorry
遗憾
Xin lỗi
Bye
再见
Tạm biệt
I Love You
我爱你
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
原谅我
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
cantonais
vietnamien
German Name
Kantonesisch
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
17th century
c. 1440
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
114
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
vie
ISO 639 2/B
yue
vie
ISO 639 3
No data available
vie
ISO 639 6
yue
vie
Glottocode
cant1236
viet1252
Linguasphere
No data available
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating