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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
21
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
India
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
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
Govenment of Goa
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.
  • Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
  • Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Marathi
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2852
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
816
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2036
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
103
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks4 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好
Namaskar
3.2 Thank You
谢谢
Dev Borem Korum
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗?
kaso assa?
3.4 Good Night
晚安
Rati Boren Zavonn
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
Sanj Borem Zavonn
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
Dis Borem Zavonn
3.8 Please
Chike
3.9 Sorry
遗憾
Maf kor
3.10 Bye
再见
Adeus
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
hav tujo mog korta.
3.12 Excuse Me
原谅我
upkar korxi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Antruz
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Goa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Xiguan
Not present
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Not present
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
31
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million7.40 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
16.00 %0.11 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million7.40 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NANA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Kōṅkaṇī
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
5.3.4 French Name
Not Available
konkani
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
Konkani
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
kõkɳi
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Konkanis
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
1209 A.D.
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European 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
Kokani
6.3.3 Language Position
NANA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Indian Signing System (ISS)
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
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
Not Available
kok
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
kok
7.3 ISO 639 3
No data available
kok
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
cant1236
goan1235
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Not Available
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available

Cantonese and Konkani Alphabets

Cantonese and Konkani Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Konkani. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Konkani Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Cantonese and Konkani languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Konkani languages. The Cantonese phonology consist Cantonese vowels and Cantonese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Cantonese greetings vs Konkani greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Konkani are Most Spoken Languages.

All Cantonese and Konkani Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Konkani dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Konkani language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Konkani Dialects are spoken in different Konkani speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Konkani Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Konkani dialects include: Antruz Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Cantonese and Konkani Speaking population

Cantonese and Konkani speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Konkani languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Konkani Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Konkani language is 0.11 %. 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 Konkani on Cantonese vs Konkani where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Konkani Language Codes

Cantonese and Konkani language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Konkani Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.