1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好
3.2 Thank You
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？
3.4 Good Night
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
3.8 Please
请
3.9 Sorry
遗憾
3.10 Bye
再见
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million
Rank: 21 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
No data available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
7.3 ISO 639 3
No data available
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
cant1236
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available