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Cantonese vs Romanian


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Countries

Countries
Hong Kong, Macau  
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
6  
9

National Language
China, Guangdong  
Moldova, Romania  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Kazakhstan, Russia  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Hawaii  
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division  
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li  

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.
  
  • Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
  • The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
  

Similar To
Chinese Language  
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.  

Derived From
-  
Latin  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Romanian.jpg#200  

Alphabets
28  
10
31  
13

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
7  
4

How Many Consonants
20  
10
20  
10

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
10  
8
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
19
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
您好  
alo  

Thank You
谢谢  
multumesc  

How Are You?
你好吗?  
ce mai faci?  

Good Night
晚安  
noapte Buna  

Good Evening
晚上好  
buna Seara  

Good Afternoon
下午好  
buna Ziua  

Good Morning
早上好  
bună Dimineața  

Please
请  
Vă Rog  

Sorry
遗憾  
scuze  

Bye
再见  
La revedere  

I Love You
我爱你  
Te iubesc  

Excuse Me
原谅我  
Scuza-Ma  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Guangzhou  
Aromanian  

Where They Speak
outside mainland China  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey  

How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00  
13
250,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Xiguan  
Megleno-Romanian  

Where They Speak
Hong Kong  
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey  

How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00  
11
5,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Hong Kong  
Istro-Romanian  

Where They Speak
Hong Kong  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00  
10
1,400.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
10  
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
60.00 million  
27
28.00 million  
38

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
0.37 %  
37

Native Speakers
52.00 million  
21
24.00 million  
33

Second Language Speakers
71.00 million  
15
4.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa  
Română  

Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese  
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian  

French Name
cantonais  
roumain; moldave  

German Name
Kantonesisch  
Rumänisch  

Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]  
[roˈmɨnə]  

Ethnicity
Han Chinese  
Romanians  

History

Origin
17th century  
1521  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
-  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Romanian  

Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese  
Romanian  

Language Position
1  
1
36  
33

Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese  
Romanian Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
ro  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
yue  
ron  

ISO 639 2/B
yue  
rum  

ISO 639 3
No data available  
ron  

ISO 639 6
yue  
ron  

Glottocode
cant1236  
roma1327  

Linguasphere
No data available  
51-AAD-c  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Synthetic  

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Cantonese and Romanian Language History

Comparison of Cantonese vs Romanian language history gives us differences between origin of Cantonese and Romanian language. History of Cantonese language states that this language originated in 17th century whereas history of Romanian language states that this language originated in 1521. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Cantonese and Romanian Language History.

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Cantonese and Romanian 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 Romanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Romanian language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Romanian word for "Thank You" is multumesc. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Romanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Cantonese vs Romanian Difficulty

The Cantonese vs Romanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Romanian 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 Romanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Romanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Romanian time required is 24 weeks.

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