1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Meghalaya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Bangladesh, India
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not Available
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
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1.10 Derived From
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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
Bengali, 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
Not Available
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
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 million0.84 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million0.84 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
Khasi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Khasi people
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
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6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
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6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
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
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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
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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