1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Philippines
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Philippines
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
Commission on the Filipino Language
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.
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Ilokano Braille, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
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
Philippines
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA21,000.00
1.5
960000000
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 million9.10 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million9.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Ilokano, Iloko
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
Ilokano-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Ilocano people
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
18th Century
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Ilocano
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
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
31-CBA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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