Countries
Burkina Faso
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2628
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1620
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
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kia ora
您好
Thank You
Laafi bala
谢谢
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
你好吗?
Good Night
Ne y yungo
晚安
Good Evening
ne y zabre
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
下午好
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
早上好
Please
gafare
请
Sorry
gafare
遗憾
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
再见
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
我爱你
Excuse Me
Y gafare
原谅我
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Saremde
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Taolende
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Mosse
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
moré
cantonais
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Han Chinese
Origin
11th Century AD
17th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Mossi
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
371
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data Available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
yue
ISO 639 2/B
mos
yue
ISO 639 3
mos
No data available
ISO 639 6
mos
yue
Glottocode
moss1236
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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