Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
East Asia, European Union
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Akademio de Esperanto
  
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.
  
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
Halo
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
Dankon
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Good Night
晚安
  
Bonan nokton
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
Bonan vesperon
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
Bonan posttagmezon
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
Bonan matenon
  
Please
请
  
Mi petas
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Bye
再见
  
Ĝis poste
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
Mi amas vin
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
Pardonu!
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Not present
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Not present
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Not present
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
2.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
0.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Esperanto
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
French Name
Not Available
  
espéranto
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Esperanto
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[espeˈranto]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
17th century
  
1887
  
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
  
Proto-Esperanto
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Esperanto
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signuno
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
eo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
epo
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
epo
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
epo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
espe1235
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAB-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Constructed
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Cantonese and Esperanto Speaking population
Cantonese and Esperanto speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Esperanto languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Esperanto Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Esperanto language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Esperanto on Cantonese vs Esperanto where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Esperanto Language Codes
Cantonese and Esperanto language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Esperanto Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.