1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Assam, India
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Assam, India
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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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.
- In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
- Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language
1.10 Derived From
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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
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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
早上好
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Xiguan
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Hong Kong
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Assam, India, Nepal
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 million0.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million0.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
बड़ो (boṛo)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci
5.3.4 French Name
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5.3.5 German Name
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5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
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6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
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6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
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6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
No data available
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7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
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7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
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7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
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7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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