Countries
Armenian Highland
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Hawaii
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- 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
Greek
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
谢谢
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
你好吗？
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
晚安
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
下午好
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
早上好
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
请
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
遗憾
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
我爱你
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
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Hong Kong
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
arménien
cantonais
German Name
Armenisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Han Chinese
Origin
late 5th century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Signed Cantonese
ISO 639 1
hy
No data available
ISO 639 3
hye
No data available
Glottocode
arme1241
cant1236
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Armenian and Cantonese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Armenian and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Armenian and Cantonese language. Armenian word for "Hello" is Բարեւ (Barev) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Armenian Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Armenian vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Armenian vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Armenian Alphabets and Cantonese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Armenian and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Armenian and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Armenian is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.