Countries
Wales
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Wales
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
Hawaii
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- 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
English Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
British Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2928
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Helô
您好
Thank You
Diolch
谢谢
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
你好吗？
Good Night
Nos da
晚安
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
晚上好
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
下午好
Good Morning
Bore da
早上好
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
请
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
遗憾
Bye
Hwyl
再见
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
我爱你
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
原谅我
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Argentina
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
38,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
700,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Powys
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
700,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
gallois
cantonais
German Name
Kymrisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Han Chinese
Origin
9th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Celtic
-
Branch
Brythonic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
No early forms
Standard Forms
Welsh
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
311
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
cy
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
yue
ISO 639 2/B
wel
yue
ISO 639 3
cym
No data available
ISO 639 6
cym
yue
Glottocode
wels1247
cant1236
Linguasphere
50-ABA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-