Countries
Indonesia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Hawaii
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2628
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1920
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
710
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
您好
Thank You
Terima kasih
谢谢
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
你好吗？
Good Night
Selamat Malam
晚安
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
下午好
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
早上好
Please
mohon Untuk
请
Sorry
maaf
遗憾
Bye
Selamat tinggal
再见
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
我爱你
Excuse Me
Permisi
原谅我
Dialect 1
Sundanese
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Indonesia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Balinese
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
463
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.16 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
23.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
indonésien
cantonais
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Indonesians
Han Chinese
Origin
7th Century
17th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Malay
No early forms
Standard Forms
Indonesian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
561
1
120
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Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
id
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ind
yue
ISO 639 2/B
ind
yue
ISO 639 3
ind
No data available
ISO 639 6
ind
yue
Glottocode
indo1316
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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