Chinese and Cantonese Speaking countries

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China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan

China, Taiwan

Republic of Brazil

Asia

Indonesia, Malaysia

Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council

Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.

Japanese and Korean Languages

Hong Kong, Macau

China, Guangdong

Not spoken in any of the countries

Asia

Hawaii

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division

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.

Chinese Language

Chinese vs Cantonese Countries

Comparing Chinese vs Cantonese countries gives you idea about number of countries that speak Chinese and Cantonese languages.

So we find that, total number of countries where Chinese is official language is whereas total number of countries where Cantonese is official language is

Find if Chinese and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages. Comparison of Chinese and Cantonese speaking countries will give you the presence of Chinese and Cantonese languages in different countries. Along with Chinese vs Cantonese countries, you can also compare Chinese vs Cantonese.

Chinese and Cantonese as Minority Language

In Chinese and Cantonese speaking countries you will get the countries which have Chinese and Cantonese as minority language. The language which is spoken by minority of population in the country is called as minority language.

Chinese as minority language: .
Cantonese as minority language: .

If you want to compare Chinese and Cantonese dialects, then you can go to Chinese vs Cantonese. Some of the official languages are also considered as minority languages.

Chinese and Cantonese Regulators

Chinese and Cantonese speaking countries provide you Chinese and Cantonese regulators which are the official organizations that regulate them. regulates Chinese language.Cantonese is regulated by . Also get to learn, Chinese vs Cantonese.

Chinese and Cantonese Continents

Thinking about Chinese and Cantonese continents in which Chinese and Cantonese speaking countries are present. Check out more information on Chinese and Cantonese. Most of the Chinese speaking countries lie in . While Cantonese speaking countries lie in . Continentwise, most of the languages belong to Asian Languages and African Languages. It's always fun to know about interesting facts of any language, so lets discuss about unknown facts of Chinese and Cantonese languages:

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The Chinese language was derived from and is similar to whereas Chinese language is similar to and derived from .