1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Karnataka, India
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Karnataka, India
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Goa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
- Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.
- 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
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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
Kannada Script
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)
你好吗？
3.4 Good Night
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
540,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
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
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
220,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
49.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
38.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Kannada, Kannada
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Kannada
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available