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Cantonese
Cantonese

Persian
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Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Hawaii
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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.
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2832
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

86
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2023
9 60
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Scripts

Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic

Writing Direction

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

Thank You

谢谢
متشکرم

How Are You?

你好吗?
چطور هستید?

Good Night

晚安
شب بخیر

Good Evening

晚上好
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

下午好
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

早上好
صبح به خیر

Please

لطفا

Sorry

遗憾
متاسف

Bye

再见
خدا حافظ

I Love You

我爱你
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

原谅我
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
Western Persian

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

312
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
فارسی

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

cantonais
persan

German Name

Kantonesisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
Persian people

History

Origin

17th century
1500 BC

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
Persian

Language Position

123
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
Persian Sign Language

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
fas

ISO 639 2/B

yue
per

ISO 639 3

No data available
pes

ISO 639 6

yue
pers

Glottocode

cant1236
fars1254

Linguasphere

No data available
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Synthetic

Cantonese and Persian Alphabets

Cantonese and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Persian. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Cantonese and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Persian 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 Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Cantonese and Persian Speaking population

Cantonese and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Cantonese vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Persian Language Codes

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