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Countries

Countries

Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
Hong Kong, Macau

Total No. Of Countries

72
0 46
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National Language

Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
China, Guangdong

Second Language

Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Hawaii

Regulated By

Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division

Interesting Facts

  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  • 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 and Portuguese Languages
Chinese Language

Derived From

Latin
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2128
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1620
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

610
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ciao
您好

Thank You

grazie
谢谢

How Are You?

Come stai?
你好吗?

Good Night

buonanotte
晚安

Good Evening

buonasera
晚上好

Good Afternoon

buon pomeriggio
下午好

Good Morning

buongiorno
早上好

Please

Per Favore

Sorry

scusate
遗憾

Bye

arrivederci
再见

I Love You

Ti amo
我爱你

Excuse Me

Scusami
原谅我

Dialects

Dialect 1

Romanesco
Guangzhou

Where They Speak

Lazio
outside mainland China

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Central Italian
Xiguan

Where They Speak

Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Tuscan
Hong Kong

Where They Speak

Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

153
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

78.00 million60.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.90 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

64.00 million52.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

14.00 million71.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Italiano
Kwang Tung Wa

Alternative Names

Italiano
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese

French Name

italien
cantonais

German Name

Italienisch
Kantonesisch

Pronunciation

[itaˈljaːno]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]

Ethnicity

Italians
Han Chinese

History

Origin

960 BC
17th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Romance
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Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Italian
Standard Cantonese

Language Position

271
1 120
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Signed Forms

italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Signed Cantonese

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

it
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ita
yue

ISO 639 2/B

ita
yue

ISO 639 3

ita
No data available

ISO 639 6

itas
yue

Glottocode

ital1282
cant1236

Linguasphere

51-AAA-q
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

Fusional, Synthetic
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Italian and Cantonese Alphabets

Italian and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Italian and Cantonese. In Italian Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Italian and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Italian and Cantonese languages. The Italian phonology consist Italian vowels and Italian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Italian greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Italian and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Italian 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 Italian and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Italian and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Italian are spoken in different Italian Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Italian vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Italian dialects include: Romanesco, Central Italian. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Italian and Cantonese Speaking population

Italian and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Italian and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Italian and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Italian language is 0.90 % 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 Italian and Cantonese on Italian vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Italian and Cantonese Language Codes

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