Countries
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
62
0
46
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National Language
Moldova, Romania
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Kazakhstan, Russia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Hawaii
Regulated By
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
- 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
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Chinese Language
Derived From
Latin
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3128
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
alo
您好
Thank You
multumesc
谢谢
How Are You?
ce mai faci?
你好吗?
Good Night
noapte Buna
晚安
Good Evening
buna Seara
晚上好
Good Afternoon
buna Ziua
下午好
Good Morning
bună Dimineața
早上好
Please
Vă Rog
请
Sorry
scuze
遗憾
Bye
La revedere
再见
I Love You
Te iubesc
我爱你
Excuse Me
Scuza-Ma
原谅我
Dialect 1
Aromanian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
250,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Megleno-Romanian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
5,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Istro-Romanian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Croatia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,400.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
24.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Română
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
roumain; moldave
cantonais
German Name
Rumänisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[roˈmɨnə]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Romanians
Han Chinese
Origin
1521
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Romanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Romanian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
361
1
120
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Signed Forms
Romanian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ro
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ron
yue
ISO 639 2/B
rum
yue
ISO 639 3
ron
No data available
ISO 639 6
ron
yue
Glottocode
roma1327
cant1236
Linguasphere
51-AAD-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-