Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
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 in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
你好吗？
چطور هستید?
Good Evening
晚上好
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
下午好
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
早上好
صبح به خیر
I Love You
我爱你
من شما را دوست دارم
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Western Persian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Iran, Iraq
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Afganistan
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
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
Origin
17th century
1500 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Persian
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Persian Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
fa
ISO 639 3
No data available
pes
Glottocode
cant1236
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAC-c
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic
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.