Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India
National Language
China, Guangdong
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
NA
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Bengali Language
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Hello
您好
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
谢谢
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
你好吗？
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
晚安
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
晚上好
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
下午好
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
早上好
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
请
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
遗憾
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
I Love You
我爱你
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
原谅我
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Not Available
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Not Available
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
Not Available
goudjrati
German Name
Not Available
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Gujaratis
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
gu
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
guj
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
guj
ISO 639 3
No data available
guj
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cant1236
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
All Cantonese and Gujarati 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 Gujarati dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Gujarati language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Gujarati Dialects are spoken in different Gujarati speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Gujarati Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Gujarati dialects include: Kathiyawadi , Kharwa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Gujarati Speaking population
Cantonese and Gujarati speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Gujarati languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Gujarati Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Gujarati language is 0.74 %. 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 Gujarati on Cantonese vs Gujarati where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Gujarati Language Codes
Cantonese and Gujarati language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Gujarati Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.