Countries
United States of America
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
United States of America
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
North America
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
- Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
- Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.
- 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
Apache Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3628
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3420
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
210
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Yá'át'ééh
您好
Thank You
Ahéhee'
谢谢
How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
你好吗？
Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
晚安
Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh
下午好
Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní
早上好
Please
T'aa shoodi
请
Sorry
Nízhdził
遗憾
Bye
Hágoónee’
再见
I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí
我爱你
Excuse Me
Shoohá
原谅我
Dialect 1
Navajo1
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Arizona
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
170,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Navajo2
Xiguan
Where They Speak
New Mexico
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
170,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Navajo3
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Utah
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
120,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.17 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Navaho
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
navaho
cantonais
German Name
Navajo-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈnævəhoʊ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Navajo people
Han Chinese
Origin
1500 CE
17th century
Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Athapascan
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Navajo
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
291
1
120
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Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
nv
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nav
yue
ISO 639 2/B
nav
yue
ISO 639 3
nav
No data available
ISO 639 6
nav
yue
Glottocode
nava1243
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
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