Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
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Chinese Language
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
您好
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
早上好
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
请
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
遗憾
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
再见
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
outside mainland China
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
52.00 million
  
21
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
chinois
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
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Branch
Not Available
  
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
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Chinese and Cantonese Speaking population
Chinese and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and Cantonese on Chinese vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chinese and Cantonese Language Codes
Chinese and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.