Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
National Language
China, Guangdong
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Not Available
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
你好吗？
kako si
Good Evening
晚上好
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
下午好
dobar dan
Good Morning
早上好
dobro jutro
Excuse Me
原谅我
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Chakavian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Croatia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Croatia
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Hrvatski
French Name
Not Available
croate
German Name
Not Available
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Croats
Origin
17th century
9th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
hr
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
hrv
ISO 639 3
No data available
hrv
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cant1236
croa1245
Linguasphere
No data available
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
All Cantonese and Croatian Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Croatian dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Croatian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Croatian Dialects are spoken in different Croatian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Croatian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Croatian dialects include: Chakavian , Chakavian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Croatian Speaking population
Cantonese and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Croatian on Cantonese vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Croatian Language Codes
Cantonese and Croatian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Croatian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.