Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
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
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Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-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？
Wie geht es dir?
Good Evening
晚上好
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
下午好
guten Tag
Good Morning
早上好
guten Morgen
I Love You
我爱你
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
原谅我
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Swiss German
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Germany
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Texas German
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Texas
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
Origin
17th century
6th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed German
ISO 639 1
No data available
de
ISO 639 3
No data available
deu
Glottocode
cant1236
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional, Synthetic
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.