Countries
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
2
13
7
8
National Language
China, Guangdong
Azerbaijan, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
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.
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Turkish
Derived From
Not Available
Osmanly language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
28
10
32
14
Phonology
How Many Vowels
8
5
9
6
How Many Consonants
20
10
23
13
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
10
8
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks
13
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
您好
Salam
Thank You
谢谢
Təşəkkür edirəm
How Are You?
你好吗？
necəsən
Good Night
晚安
yaxşı gecə
Good Evening
晚上好
Axşamınız xeyir
Good Afternoon
下午好
Günortanız Xeyir
Good Morning
早上好
Sabahınız xeyir
Please
请
lütfən
Sorry
遗憾
üzr
Bye
再见
xudafiz
I Love You
我爱你
Mən səni sevirəm
Excuse Me
原谅我
Bağışlayın
Dialects
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Derbent
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Russia
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Gazakh
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Azerbaijan
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Baku
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Azerbaijan
Total No. Of Dialects
3
3
33
26
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
27
26.00 million
39
Speaking Population
16.00 %
2
0.34 %
37
Native Speakers
52.00 million
21
23.00 million
34
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
French Name
Not Available
azéri
German Name
Not Available
Aserbeidschanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Azerbaijani
History
Origin
17th century
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Turkic
Branch
Not Available
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Azerbaijani
Language Position
Not Available
38
30
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
No data available
az
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
aze
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
aze
ISO 639 3
No data available
aze
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cant1236
azer1255
Linguasphere
No data available
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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