Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India, Nepal
National Language
China, Guangdong
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Hindi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
谢谢
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
你好吗？
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
晚安
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
晚上好
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Good afternoon
Good Morning
早上好
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Sorry
遗憾
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
I Love You
我爱你
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
原谅我
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Doteli
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India, Nepal
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Nepal
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
Not Available
népalais
German Name
Not Available
Nepali
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
17th century
19 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Nepali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ne
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
nep
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
nep
ISO 639 3
No data available
npi
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cant1236
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative
Cantonese and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Nepali language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Nepali Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.