Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
China, Guangdong
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.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？
Wie geht es dir?
Good Evening
晚上好
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
下午好
guten Tag
Good Morning
早上好
guten Morgen
I Love You
我爱你
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
原谅我
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Swiss German
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Germany
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Texas German
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Texas
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
Not Available
allemand
German Name
Not Available
Deutsch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Germans
Origin
17th century
6th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed German
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
de
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
deu
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
ger
ISO 639 3
No data available
deu
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
cant1236
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Cantonese and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and German language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs German Difficulty
The Cantonese vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.