Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
National Language
China, Guangdong
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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How Are You?
你好吗？
Habari gani?
Good Night
晚安
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
晚上好
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
下午好
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
早上好
Habari za asubuhi
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Zanzibar island
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Dar es Salaam
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kilwa
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Kiswahili
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
cantonais
swahili
German Name
Kantonesisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[swaˈhili]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
17th century
6th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Swahili
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Swahili Sign Language
Scope
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Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
sw
ISO 639 3
No data available
swa
Glottocode
cant1236
swah1254
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-m
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Cantonese and Swahili 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 Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Swahili Speaking population
Cantonese and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. 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 Swahili on Cantonese vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Swahili Language Codes
Cantonese and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.