1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
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
Not Available
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Old German Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Prakrit Language
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
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
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
谢谢
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
3.4 Good Night
晚安
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
3.10 Bye
再见
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
3.12 Excuse Me
原谅我
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
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 million14.10 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million14.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Vedic Sanskrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Sanskrit
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
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
Not Available
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
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology