Cantonese and Swedish
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
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 in
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Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
你好吗？
hur mår du
Good Evening
晚上好
god kväll
Good Afternoon
下午好
god eftermiddag
Good Morning
早上好
god morgon
I Love You
我爱你
jag älskar dig
Excuse Me
原谅我
ursäkta mig
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Dialects
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Gabon
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Dialects
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Georgia
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Dialects
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
France
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
Origin
17th century
13th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Swedish
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Swedish
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
ISO 639 1
No data available
sv
ISO 639 3
No data available
swe
Glottocode
cant1236
swed1254
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ck to -cw
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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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.