Countries
India
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
-
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3028
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
您好
Thank You
Adi Johar
谢谢
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
你好吗?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
晚安
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
晚上好
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
下午好
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
早上好
Please
দয়া করে
请
Sorry
দুঃখিত
遗憾
Bye
Hariau
再见
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
我爱你
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
原谅我
Dialect 1
Mahali
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
India
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Xiguan
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
santal
cantonais
German Name
Santali
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Han Chinese
Origin
20th century
17th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
411
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
yue
ISO 639 2/B
sat
yue
ISO 639 3
sat
No data available
ISO 639 6
sat
yue
Glottocode
sant1410
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-