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Cantonese
Cantonese

French
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Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu

Total No. Of Countries

232
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
France

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Canada

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America

Minority Language

Hawaii
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française

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.
  • French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
  • French is the top language in Culinary Scene.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Italian Language

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2826
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

86
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2020
9 60
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Scripts

Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

106
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好
bonjour

Thank You

谢谢
Merci

How Are You?

你好吗?
Comment allez-vous?

Good Night

晚安
bonne Nuit

Good Evening

晚上好
bonsoir

Good Afternoon

下午好
bon Après-Midi

Good Morning

早上好
Bonjour

Please

S'il vous plaît

Sorry

遗憾
désolé

Bye

再见
au revoir

I Love You

我爱你
Je t'aime

Excuse Me

原谅我
Excuse Moi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
Quebec French

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.006,200,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
African French

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Africa

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.00274,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Swiss French

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Northeast France, Switzerland

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.001,800,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

325
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million163.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %1.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million76.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million87.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
français

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Français

French Name

cantonais
français

German Name

Kantonesisch
Französisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
French people

History

Origin

17th century
9th Century

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Romance

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old French, Middle French and French

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
Standard French

Language Position

113
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
fr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
fra

ISO 639 2/B

yue
fre

ISO 639 3

No data available
fra

ISO 639 6

yue
fras

Glottocode

cant1236
stan1290

Linguasphere

No data available
51-AAA-i

Types of Language

Language Type

-
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Cantonese and French Alphabets

Cantonese and French Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and French. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in French Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Cantonese and French languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and French languages. The Cantonese phonology consist Cantonese vowels and Cantonese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Cantonese greetings vs French greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and French are Most Spoken Languages.

All Cantonese and French 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 French dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and French language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas French Dialects are spoken in different French speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs French Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. French dialects include: Quebec French , African French. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Cantonese and French Speaking population

Cantonese and French speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and French languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and French Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 %. 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 French on Cantonese vs French where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and French Language Codes

Cantonese and French language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and French Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.