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Cantonese
Cantonese

Swedish
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Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Finland

Speaking Continents

Asia
Antartica, Europe

Minority Language

Hawaii
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council

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 Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Norwegian and Danish Language

Derived From

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Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2829
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

89
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2018
9 60
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Scripts

Chinese Characters and derivatives
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好
hej

Thank You

谢谢
tacka dig

How Are You?

你好吗?
hur mår du

Good Night

晚安
godnatt

Good Evening

晚上好
god kväll

Good Afternoon

下午好
god eftermiddag

Good Morning

早上好
god morgon

Please

vänligen

Sorry

遗憾
ledsen

Bye

再见
hej då

I Love You

我爱你
jag älskar dig

Excuse Me

原谅我
ursäkta mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
Dialects

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
Gabon

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
Dialects

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Georgia

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.0078,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Dialects

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
France

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.0096,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

379
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million15.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
Svenska

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Ruotsi, Svenska

French Name

cantonais
suédois

German Name

Kantonesisch
Schwedisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
Swedes, Finland Swedes

History

Origin

17th century
13th Century

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

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Northern (Scandinavian)

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Swedish

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
Standard Swedish

Language Position

189
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
sv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
swe

ISO 639 2/B

yue
swe

ISO 639 3

No data available
swe

ISO 639 6

yue
swe

Glottocode

cant1236
swed1254

Linguasphere

No data available
52-AAA-ck to -cw

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
-

Cantonese and Swedish Alphabets

Cantonese and Swedish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Swedish. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Cantonese and Swedish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Swedish 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 Swedish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Swedish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Cantonese and Swedish Speaking population

Cantonese and Swedish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Swedish languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Swedish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 %. 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 Swedish on Cantonese vs Swedish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Swedish Language Codes

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