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Countries

Countries

Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Hong Kong, Macau

Total No. Of Countries

332
0 46
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National Language

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, Guangdong

Second Language

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia

Minority Language

South Africa
Hawaii

Regulated By

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

Interesting Facts

  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  • 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages
Chinese Language

Derived From

Latin
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2628
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2120
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

710
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

6 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hello
您好

Thank You

Thank you
谢谢

How Are You?

How are you?
你好吗?

Good Night

Good Night
晚安

Good Evening

Good Evening
晚上好

Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon
下午好

Good Morning

Good Morning
早上好

Please

Please

Sorry

Sorry
遗憾

Bye

Bye
再见

I Love You

I love you
我爱你

Excuse Me

Excuse Me
原谅我

Dialects

Dialect 1

American English
Guangzhou

Where They Speak

United States of America
outside mainland China

How Many People Speak

225,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hiberno-English
Xiguan

Where They Speak

Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0071,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Welsh English
Hong Kong

Where They Speak

United Kingdom
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.0070,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1883
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1,200.00 million60.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

5.43 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

400.00 million52.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

400.00 million71.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

English
Kwang Tung Wa

Alternative Names

English
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese

French Name

anglais
cantonais

German Name

Englisch
Kantonesisch

Pronunciation

/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]

Ethnicity

English people
Han Chinese

History

Origin

5th Century AD
17th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

-
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Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard English
Standard Cantonese

Language Position

31
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed English
Signed Cantonese

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

en
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eng
yue

ISO 639 2/B

eng
yue

ISO 639 3

eng
No data available

ISO 639 6

engs
yue

Glottocode

stan1293
cant1236

Linguasphere

52-ABA
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
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English and Cantonese Alphabets

English and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in English and Cantonese. In English Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn English and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of English and Cantonese languages. The English phonology consist English vowels and English consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at English greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether English and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All English and Cantonese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all English and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of English and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of English are spoken in different English Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking English vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the English dialects include: American English, Hiberno-English. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

English and Cantonese Speaking population

English and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which English and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of English and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak English and Cantonese on English vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

English and Cantonese Language Codes

English and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. English and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.