Countries
India
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
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
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5228
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
您好
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
谢谢
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
你好吗?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
晚安
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
晚上好
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
下午好
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
早上好
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
请
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
遗憾
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
再见
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
我爱你
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Not present
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
-
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
140,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Xiguan
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
140,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
140,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
03
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
sanskrit
cantonais
German Name
Sanskrit
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Han Chinese
Origin
2000 B.C.
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sa
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
yue
ISO 639 2/B
san
yue
ISO 639 3
san
No data available
ISO 639 6
san
yue
Glottocode
sans1269
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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