1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Philippines
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.3 National Language
Philippines
China, Guangdong
2.4 Second Language
Philippines
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.5 Speaking Continents
2.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
2.7 Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
2.8 Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
- 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.
2.9 Similar To
Hiligaynon Language
Chinese Language
2.10 Derived From
Island of Cebu
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.3 How Many Consonants
3.8 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
3.9 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
3.10 Hard to Learn
3.10.1 Language Levels
5.1.3 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
6.4 Good Night
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Bohol
outside mainland China
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
8.2 Dialect 3
8.2.1 Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
Hong Kong
8.2.2 How Many People Speak
8.4 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
NA60.00 million
0.13
1200
10.4 Speaking Population
10.5 Native Speakers
21.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
11.7.4 Second Language Speakers
11.7.5 Native Name
11.7.6 Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
11.7.7 French Name
11.7.8 German Name
11.8 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
11.9 Ethnicity
Cebuano people
Not Available
12 History
12.1 Origin
16th century
17th century
12.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
12.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
12.3 Language Forms
12.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
12.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cebuano
Standard Cantonese
12.3.3 Language Position
12.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
12.4 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
No data Available
No data available
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Not Available
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available