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
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
Not Available
Alphabets in
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Mexico
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Cuba
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Español
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
espagnol; castillan
Not Available
German Name
Spanisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
Origin
210 BC
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
es
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
spa
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
spa
Not Available
ISO 639 3
spa
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1288
cant1236
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available