Countries
Haiti
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Haiti
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Central America, North America
Asia
Minority Language
Cuba
Hawaii
Regulated By
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
- 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
French Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2928
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bonjou
您好
Thank You
Mèsi
谢谢
How Are You?
Kijan ou yé?
你好吗？
Good Night
Bon nwit
晚安
Good Evening
Bonswa
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Bon apre-midi
下午好
Good Morning
Bon apre-midi
早上好
Please
Souple
请
Sorry
Dezole
遗憾
Bye
Babay
再见
I Love You
Mwen renmen w
我爱你
Excuse Me
Eskize m
原谅我
Dialect 1
Northern Haitian Creole
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Cap-Haitien
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Haitian Creole
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Port-au-Prince
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Haitian Creole
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Cayes
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.60 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.15 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
9.60 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kreyòl ayisyen
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
haïtien; créole haïtien
cantonais
German Name
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[kɣejɔl]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Haitians
Han Chinese
Origin
17th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Haitian Creole
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
991
1
120
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Signed Forms
Langue des Signes Haïtienne (LSH)
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ht
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hat
yue
ISO 639 2/B
hat
yue
ISO 639 3
hat
No data available
ISO 639 6
hat
yue
Glottocode
hait1244
cant1236
Linguasphere
51-AAC-cb
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-