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Cantonese
Cantonese

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Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Asia
Europe

Minority Language

Hawaii
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2826
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

810
0 32
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How Many Consonants

209
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 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好
hallo

Thank You

谢谢
Danke

How Are You?

你好吗?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

晚安
gute Nacht

Good Evening

晚上好
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

下午好
guten Tag

Good Morning

早上好
guten Morgen

Please

bitte

Sorry

遗憾
Verzeihung

Bye

再见
Tschüs

I Love You

我爱你
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

原谅我
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
Swiss German

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Germany

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Texas German

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Texas

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

328
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

cantonais
allemand

German Name

Kantonesisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
Germans

History

Origin

17th century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

19
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
Signed German

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
deu

ISO 639 2/B

yue
ger

ISO 639 3

No data available
deu

ISO 639 6

yue
deus

Glottocode

cant1236
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Cantonese and German Alphabets

Cantonese and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and German. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Cantonese and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and German are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Cantonese and German Speaking population

Cantonese and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and German languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Cantonese vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and German Language Codes

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