1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
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
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Switzerland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA820,000.00
700
80000000
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 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million101.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA128.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Deutsch, Tedesco
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
6th Century AD
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed German
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
cant1236
high1287, uppe1397
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic