1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Philippines
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Philippines
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Hiligaynon Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Island of Cebu
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Bohol
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
northern part of Leyte
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 millionNA
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Cebuano people
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
16th century
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Cebuano
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
No data available
No data Available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Verb-Subject-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available