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Countries

Countries

Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
Hong Kong, Macau

Total No. Of Countries

462
0 46
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National Language

Spain
China, Guangdong

Second Language

Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia

Minority Language

Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
Hawaii

Regulated By

Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division

Interesting Facts

  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  • 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 Language
Chinese Language

Derived From

Latin
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2728
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2220
9 60
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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
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hola
您好

Thank You

Gracias
谢谢

How Are You?

Cómo estás?
你好吗?

Good Night

Buenas Noches
晚安

Good Evening

Bonne soirée
晚上好

Good Afternoon

Buenas Tardes
下午好

Good Morning

Buenos Días
早上好

Please

Por Favor

Sorry

triste
遗憾

Bye

adiós
再见

I Love You

Te Quiero
我爱你

Excuse Me

Discúlpeme
原谅我

Dialects

Dialect 1

Mexican Spanish
Guangzhou

Where They Speak

Mexico
outside mainland China

How Many People Speak

105,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Cuban Spanish
Xiguan

Where They Speak

Cuba
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Puerto Rican Spanish
Hong Kong

Where They Speak

Puerto Rico
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

3,900,000.0070,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

213
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

489.00 million60.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

6.15 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

410.00 million52.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

89.50 million71.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Español
Kwang Tung Wa

Alternative Names

Castellano, Castilian, Español
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese

French Name

espagnol; castillan
cantonais

German Name

Spanisch
Kantonesisch

Pronunciation

[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]

Ethnicity

Spanish people
Han Chinese

History

Origin

210 BC
17th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Romance
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Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Spanish and Spanish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Standard Cantonese

Language Position

21
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Spanish
Signed Cantonese

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

es
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

spa
yue

ISO 639 2/B

spa
yue

ISO 639 3

spa
No data available

ISO 639 6

spa
yue

Glottocode

stan1288
cant1236

Linguasphere

51-AAA-b
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
-

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Spanish and Cantonese Alphabets

Spanish and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Spanish and Cantonese. In Spanish Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Spanish and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Spanish and Cantonese languages. The Spanish phonology consist Spanish vowels and Spanish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Spanish greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Spanish and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Spanish and Cantonese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Spanish and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Spanish and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Spanish are spoken in different Spanish Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Spanish vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Spanish dialects include: Mexican Spanish, Cuban Spanish. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Spanish and Cantonese Speaking population

Spanish and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Spanish and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Spanish and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Spanish language is 6.15 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Spanish and Cantonese on Spanish vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Spanish and Cantonese Language Codes

Spanish and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Spanish and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.