1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
1.4 Phonology
1.4.1 How Many Vowels
1.4.2 How Many Consonants
1.6 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
1.7 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
1.8 Hard to Learn
1.8.1 Language Levels
1.8.2 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
2.2 Thank You
2.3 How Are You?
2.4 Good Night
2.5 Good Evening
2.6 Good Afternoon
2.7 Good Morning
2.8 Please
2.9 Sorry
2.10 Bye
2.11 I Love You
2.12 Excuse Me
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
3.1.1 Where They Speak
Lazio
outside mainland China
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
3.2 Dialect 2
3.2.1 Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
Hong Kong
3.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
3.3 Dialect 3
3.3.1 Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
Hong Kong
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
3.4 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
78.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
64.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
4.3.3 Alternative Names
Italiano
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
Italienisch
Not Available
4.4 Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
Not Available
4.5 Ethnicity
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
5.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
Italian
Standard Cantonese
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Not Available
5.4 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
No data available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available