1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Indonesia
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Indonesia
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
Not Available
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
Indonesia
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
23.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
140.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Indonesians
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Indonesian
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Not Available
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
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available