Countries
West Java
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
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
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
- 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
Madurese and Malay Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3328
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1620
9
60
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Scripts
Latin, Sundanese
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
40 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
您好
Thank You
Nuhun
谢谢
How Are You?
Kumaha kabarna?
你好吗？
Good Night
Wilujeng kulem
晚安
Good Evening
Wilujeng wengi
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Wilujeng siang
下午好
Good Morning
Wilujeng énjing
早上好
Please
Mangga
请
Sorry
Hapunten
遗憾
Bye
Wilujeng angkat
再见
I Love You
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
我爱你
Excuse Me
Punten
原谅我
Dialect 1
Western dialect
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Banten
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
40,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Northern dialect
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Bogor
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
40,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Priangan dialect
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Bandung
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
40,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
39.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Basa Sunda
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Priangan, Sunda
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
soundanais
cantonais
German Name
Sundanesisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[sʊnˈdæniːs]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
Han Chinese
Origin
5th century AD
17th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sundanese
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
421
1
120
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Signed Forms
Sundanese Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
su
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sun
yue
ISO 639 2/B
sun
yue
ISO 639 3
sun
No data available
ISO 639 6
sun
yue
Glottocode
sund1251
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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