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Esperanto and Cantonese


Cantonese and Esperanto


Countries

Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America   
Hong Kong, Macau   

Total No. Of Countries
3   
12
2   
13

National Language
East Asia, European Union   
China, Guangdong   

Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Hawaii   

Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto   
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division   

Interesting Facts
  • The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
  • Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
  • 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
Not Available   
Chinese Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
32   
14
28   
10

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
8   
5

How Many Consonants
27   
17
20   
10

Scripts
Latin   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
10   
8

Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks   
3
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
Halo   
您好   

Thank You
Dankon   
谢谢   

How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?   
你好吗?   

Good Night
Bonan nokton   
晚安   

Good Evening
Bonan vesperon   
晚上好   

Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon   
下午好   

Good Morning
Bonan matenon   
早上好   

Please
Mi petas   
请   

Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!   
遗憾   

Bye
Ĝis poste   
再见   

I Love You
Mi amas vin   
我爱你   

Excuse Me
Pardonu!   
原谅我   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Not present   
Guangzhou   

Where They Speak
Not present   
outside mainland China   

Dialect 2
Not present   
Xiguan   

Where They Speak
Not present   
Hong Kong   

Dialect 3
Not present   
Hong Kong   

Where They Speak
Not present   
Hong Kong   

Total No. Of Dialects
0   
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
2.20 million   
99+
60.00 million   
27

Speaking Population
Not Available   
16.00 %   
2

Native Speakers
0.20 million   
99+
52.00 million   
21

Second Language Speakers
2.00 million   
34
Not Available   

Native Name
Esperanto   
Kwang Tung Wa   

Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia   
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese   

French Name
espéranto   
Not Available   

German Name
Esperanto   
Not Available   

Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
Not Available   

History

Origin
1887   
17th century   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Esperanto   
Standard Cantonese   

Signed Forms
Signuno   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
eo   
No data available   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
epo   
Not Available   

ISO 639 2/B
epo   
Not Available   

ISO 639 3
epo   
No data available   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
espe1235   
cant1236   

Linguasphere
51-AAB-da   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Constructed   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Not Available   

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All Esperanto and Cantonese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Esperanto and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Esperanto and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Esperanto are spoken in different Esperanto Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Esperanto vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Esperanto and Cantonese Speaking population

Esperanto and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Esperanto and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Esperanto and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Esperanto language is Not Available 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 Esperanto and Cantonese on Esperanto vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Esperanto and Cantonese Language Codes

Esperanto and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Esperanto and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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