1 Countries
1.1 Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
East Asia, European Union
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
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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
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not present
outside mainland China
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?
2.20 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.20 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
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6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Esperanto
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
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
51-AAB-da
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Constructed
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available