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About Cantonese Language



Countries
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Countries
Hong Kong, Macau 0

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
China, Guangdong 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Asia 0

Minority Language
Hawaii 0

Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division 0

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.
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Similar To
Chinese Language 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
28 10

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
8 5

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
10 8

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks 13

Greetings
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Hello
您好 0

Thank You
谢谢 0

How Are You?
你好吗? 0

Good Night
晚安 0

Good Evening
晚上好 0

Good Afternoon
下午好 0

Good Morning
早上好 0

Please
请 0

Sorry
遗憾 0

Bye
再见 0

I Love You
我爱你 0

Excuse Me
原谅我 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Guangzhou 0

Where They Speak
outside mainland China 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
Xiguan 0

Where They Speak
Hong Kong 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Hong Kong 0

Where They Speak
Hong Kong 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million 27

Speaking Population
16.00 % 2

Native Speakers
52.00 million 21

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa 0

Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese 0

French Name
Not Available 0

German Name
Not Available 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Not Available 0

History
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Origin
17th century 0

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family 0

Subgroup
Not Available 0

Branch
Not Available 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese 0

Language Position
Not Available 0

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Not Available 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
No data available 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
Not Available 0

ISO 639 2/B
Not Available 0

ISO 639 3
No data available 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
cant1236 0

Linguasphere
No data available 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Not Available 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available 0

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available 0

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Know Alphabets in Cantonese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Cantonese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Cantonese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Cantonese. Cantonese phonology gives Cantonese vowels and Cantonese consonants. There are 8 vowels and 20 consonants in Cantonese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Cantonese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Cantonese language is given in detail in this section.

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All Cantonese countries

Want to explore all Cantonese countries? About Cantonese language serves you with all Cantonese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Cantonese as official language are called as Cantonese countries.

  • Countries that use Cantonese as their National Language are: China, Guangdong.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Cantonese as second language are: Cantonese is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Cantonese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Cantonese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Cantonese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Cantonese language.Learn Cantonese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: 您好
  • Thank you: 谢谢
  • Good Morning: 早上好
  • Good Evening: 晚上好
  • Good Afternoon: 下午好

All Cantonese Language Codes

Get to know all Cantonese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Cantonese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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