Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
National Language
China, Guangdong
France
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Canada
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Minority Language
Hawaii
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Italian Language
Alphabets in
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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？
Comment allez-vous?
Good Afternoon
下午好
bon Après-Midi
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Quebec French
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Dialect 2
Xiguan
African French
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Africa
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Swiss French
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Northeast France, Switzerland
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
français
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Français
French Name
cantonais
français
German Name
Kantonesisch
Französisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
French people
Origin
17th century
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard French
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
ISO 639 1
No data available
fr
ISO 639 3
No data available
fra
Glottocode
cant1236
stan1290
Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAA-i
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic
Cantonese and French Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Cantonese and French greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and French language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or French word for "Thank You" is Merci. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and French Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs French Difficulty
The Cantonese vs French difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and French Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Cantonese and French are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and French, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn French time required is 24 weeks.