Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-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
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
晚安
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
Bonjour
  
Please
请
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
désolé
  
Bye
再见
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Français
  
French Name
Not Available
  
français
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
17th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Standard French
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic