Countries
Czech Republic, European Union
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Czech Republic
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
Hawaii
Regulated By
Institute of the Czech Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
- 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.
Similar To
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4228
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
328
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3220
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
510
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ahoj
您好
Thank You
děkuji
谢谢
How Are You?
Jak se máš?
你好吗？
Good Night
dobrou noc
晚安
Good Evening
dobrý večer
晚上好
Good Afternoon
dobré odpoledne
下午好
Good Morning
dobré ráno
早上好
Please
prosím
请
Sorry
litovat
遗憾
Bye
sbohem
再见
I Love You
Miluji tě
我爱你
Excuse Me
promiňte
原谅我
Dialect 1
Chod
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Chodsko, Bohemia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Lach
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
10,500,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Moravian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
108,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
133
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.15 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
čeština / český jazyk
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Bohemian, Cestina
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
tchèque
cantonais
German Name
Tschechisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Czechs
Han Chinese
Origin
9th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Czech
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
731
1
120
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Signed Forms
Czech Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
cs
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ces
yue
ISO 639 2/B
cze
yue
ISO 639 3
ces
No data available
ISO 639 6
ces
yue
Glottocode
czec1258
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-da
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
-