1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Malaysia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
2.1 Speaking Continents
2.3 Minority Language
2.5 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
2.7 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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
2.10 Similar To
Chinese Language
Indonesian Language
2.12 Derived From
Not Available
Tamil Language
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
4.3 Phonology
4.3.1 How Many Vowels
4.4.3 How Many Consonants
4.6 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
4.7 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
4.8 Hard to Learn
4.8.1 Language Levels
5.2.1 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
6.4 Good Night
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
8.4 Dialect 2
8.4.1 Where They Speak
8.4.2 How Many People Speak
9.8 Dialect 3
9.8.1 Where They Speak
9.8.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,100,000.00
1400
96000000
9.9 Total No. Of Dialects
10 How Many People Speak
10.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million175.00 million
0.13
1200
10.2 Speaking Population
10.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
10.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Bahasa melayu
10.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Not Available
10.3.4 French Name
10.3.5 German Name
10.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
10.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
11.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
11.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Pluricentric Standard Malay
11.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Malaysian Sign Language
11.4 Scope
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
12.5 Glottocode
12.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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