Countries
India, Pakistan
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
-
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
- 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4428
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
178
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2720
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
您好
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
谢谢
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
你好吗？
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
晚安
Good Evening
سہا مسا
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
下午好
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
早上好
Please
مهربانی کر
请
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
遗憾
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
再见
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
我爱你
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Poguli
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
6,100,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rambani
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.60 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.42 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
kashmiri
cantonais
German Name
Kaschmiri
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
Han Chinese
Origin
12th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kashmiri
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ks
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kas
yue
ISO 639 2/B
kas
yue
ISO 639 3
kas
No data available
ISO 639 6
kas
yue
Glottocode
kash1277
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-