Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
China, Mongolia
National Language
China, Guangdong
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Turkish Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
Hello
您好
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
谢谢
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
你好吗？
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
晚安
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
晚上好
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
早上好
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Sorry
遗憾
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
再见
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
我爱你
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
原谅我
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Mongolia
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Mongolia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Not Available
French Name
Not Available
mongol
German Name
Not Available
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
Origin
17th century
1224-1225
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Not Available
Mongolian
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
mn
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
mon
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
mon
ISO 639 3
No data available
mon
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cant1236
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data available
part of 44-BAA-b
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Cantonese and Mongolian 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 Mongolian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Mongolian language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Mongolian word for "Thank You" is та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa). Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Mongolian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Mongolian Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Mongolian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Mongolian 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 Mongolian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Mongolian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Mongolian time required is 44 weeks.