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
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
- 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 Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5328
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4120
9
60
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Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
您好
Thank You
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
谢谢
How Are You?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
你好吗？
Good Night
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
晚安
Good Evening
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
下午好
Good Morning
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
早上好
Please
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
请
Sorry
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
遗憾
Bye
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
再见
I Love You
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
我爱你
Excuse Me
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Pothohari
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Pakistan
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saraiki
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Doabi
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
130,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
303
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
154.30 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.44 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
100.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
54.30 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
pendjabi
cantonais
German Name
Pandschabi-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
Not Availble
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Punjabis
Han Chinese
Origin
1000 AD
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Cantonese
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
pa
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pan
yue
ISO 639 2/B
pan
yue
ISO 639 3
pan
No data available
ISO 639 6
panj
yue
Glottocode
panj1256
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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