1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Malta
1.3 Total No. Of Countries
1.5 National Language
1.6 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Speaking Continents
1.8 Minority Language
Hawaii
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
1.9 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
National Council for the Maltese Language
1.10 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
1.11 Similar To
Chinese Language
Western Arabic Dialects
1.12 Derived From
Not Available
Roman 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
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
下午好
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
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
Malta
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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 million0.52 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million0.52 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Malti
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
North Abric
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Maltese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Maltese Sign Language
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
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