1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Dutch 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
Latin
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
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
Guangzhou
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Xiguan
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Baster Afrikaans
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 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
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