Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
National Language
China, Guangdong
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Amharic and Hebrew
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Arabic.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
你好吗？
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
晚安
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
晚上好
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
下午好
مساء الخير
Good Morning
早上好
صباح الخير
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Sudan
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Levantine
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Cyprus, Levant
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
cantonais
arabe
German Name
Kantonesisch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Arabs
Origin
17th century
512 CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Arabic
ISO 639 1
No data available
ar
ISO 639 3
No data available
ara
Glottocode
cant1236
arab1395
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic
Cantonese and Arabic Speaking population
Cantonese and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Arabic on Cantonese vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Arabic Language Codes
Cantonese and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.