Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
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 in
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
2.20 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
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
  
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.