Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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English-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
Hello
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
晚安
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
Good Morning
  
Please
请
  
Please
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
Sorry
  
Bye
再见
  
Bye
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
1,200.00 million
  
1
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Not Available
  
French Name
Not Available
  
anglais
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
17th century
  
5th Century AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Standard English
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic