Countries
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia, Island of Madura
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
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
- Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
- 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 and Javanese Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2728
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
您好
Thank You
matur nuwun
谢谢
How Are You?
piye kabare?
你好吗?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
晚安
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
下午好
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
早上好
Please
tolong
请
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
遗憾
Bye
Pamit
再见
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
我爱你
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
原谅我
Dialect 1
Kangean
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Indonesia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
110,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bawean
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bangkalan
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.23 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Madurese
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
madourais
cantonais
German Name
Maduresisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[madura]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Madurese
Han Chinese
Origin
8th Century AD
17th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Madurese
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
691
1
120
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Signed Forms
Madurese Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data Available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mad
yue
ISO 639 2/B
mad
yue
ISO 639 3
mad
No data available
ISO 639 6
-
yue
Glottocode
madu1247
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-