Countries
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
2
13
1
14
National Language
China, Guangdong
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Not Available
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Not Available
Derived From
Not Available
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
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Hausa-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
28
10
44
24
Phonology
How Many Vowels
8
5
12
9
How Many Consonants
20
10
32
22
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
10
8
5
4
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks
13
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
您好
sannu
Thank You
谢谢
gode ku
How Are You?
你好吗？
yaya dai
Good Night
晚安
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
晚上好
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
下午好
barka da rana
Good Morning
早上好
mai kyau safe
Please
请
Don Allah
Sorry
遗憾
yi hakuri
Bye
再见
sai anjima
I Love You
我爱你
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
原谅我
gafara dai
Dialects
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Gaananci
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Ghana
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Niger
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Niger
Total No. Of Dialects
3
3
20
18
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
27
50.00 million
28
Speaking Population
16.00 %
2
0.52 %
28
Native Speakers
52.00 million
21
35.00 million
27
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
15.00 million
18
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
Not Available
haoussa
German Name
Not Available
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Hausa–Fulani people
History
Origin
17th century
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Chadic
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Hausa
Language Position
Not Available
34
27
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
No data available
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
hau
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
hau
ISO 639 3
No data available
hau
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cant1236
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
