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Cantonese
Cantonese

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Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Hawaii
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Armenian

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2824
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

87
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2017
9 60
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Scripts

Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

谢谢
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

你好吗?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

晚安
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

晚上好
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

下午好
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

早上好
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

遗憾
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

再见
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

我爱你
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

原谅我
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
Greece

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
Griko

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Italy

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Mariupol

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Ukraine

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.0013,000,000.00
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 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million13.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

cantonais
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Kantonesisch
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

17th century
1500 BC

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Hellenic

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
Modern Greek

Language Position

174
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
Greek Sign Language

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
ell

ISO 639 2/B

yue
gre

ISO 639 3

No data available
ell

ISO 639 6

yue
ells

Glottocode

cant1236
gree1276

Linguasphere

No data available
56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

-
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Cantonese and Greek Alphabets

Cantonese and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Greek. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Cantonese and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Cantonese and Greek Speaking population

Cantonese and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on Cantonese vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Greek Language Codes

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