Countries
Israel
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Israel
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Israel
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
Hawaii
Regulated By
Academy of the Hebrew Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
- 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
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Aramaic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2228
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
08
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2220
9
60
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Scripts
Hebrew
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
שלום (Shalom)
您好
Thank You
תודה (Toda)
谢谢
How Are You?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
你好吗？
Good Night
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
晚安
Good Evening
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
下午好
Good Morning
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
早上好
Please
בבקשה (bevekshah)
请
Sorry
סליחה! (Slicha)
遗憾
Bye
להתראות (Lehitraot)
再见
I Love You
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
我爱你
Excuse Me
בבקשה!
原谅我
Dialect 1
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Israel
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Samaritan Hebrew
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Israel, Palestine
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yemenite Hebrew
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Israel
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
73
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.40 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.60 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Israeli, Ivrit
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
hébreu
cantonais
German Name
Hebräisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Hebrew-speaking people
Han Chinese
Origin
1000 BC
17th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Canaanitic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Hebrew
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hebrew
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
he
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
heb
yue
ISO 639 2/B
heb
yue
ISO 639 3
heb
No data available
ISO 639 6
heb
yue
Glottocode
hebr1246
cant1236
Linguasphere
12-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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