1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Latvia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.5 National Language
1.7 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.9 Speaking Continents
1.11 Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.12 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Latvian State Language Center
1.14 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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
1.17 Similar To
Chinese Language
Lithuanian Language
1.18 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.2 How Many Consonants
3.5 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
3.6 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.7 Hard to Learn
3.7.1 Language Levels
3.10.2 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
4.3 How Are You?
4.4 Good Night
4.5 Good Evening
5.2 Good Afternoon
5.4 Good Morning
5.5 Please
5.7 Sorry
5.9 Bye
5.11 I Love You
5.13 Excuse Me
6 Dialects
6.2 Dialect 1
6.3.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Latvia
6.4.1 How Many People Speak
7.2 Dialect 2
7.2.1 Where They Speak
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
7.4 Dialect 3
7.4.1 Where They Speak
7.4.2 How Many People Speak
7.7 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million1.75 million
0.13
1200
9.4 Speaking Population
9.6 Native Speakers
52.00 million1.75 million
0.13
873
9.6.2 Second Language Speakers
10.1.1 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
latviešu valoda
10.2.1 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Lettish
10.2.4 French Name
10.3.2 German Name
10.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
10.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Latvians or Letts
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
11.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Latvian
11.3.3 Language Position
12.7.3 Signed Forms
Not Available
Latvian Sign Language
12.8 Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAB-a
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology