1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Burkina Faso
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
Not Available
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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Dagbani Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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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
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
再见
Wend na kon-d nindaare
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Burkina Faso
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 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million7.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
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5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
Mossi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
Not available
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Western Sudanic
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Gur (Voltaic)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
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
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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