Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India
National Language
China, Guangdong
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Munda Language
Alphabets in
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Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
你好吗？
Cet’leka menama?
Good Evening
晚上好
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
下午好
संध्यायान
Good Morning
早上好
Boge Setak’
I Love You
我爱你
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Mahali
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
India
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Not present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Not present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
cantonais
santal
German Name
Kantonesisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
17th century
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Santali
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Santali Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 3
No data available
sat
Glottocode
cant1236
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Cantonese and Santali 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 Santali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Santali language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Santali word for "Thank You" is Adi Johar. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Santali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Santali Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Santali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Santali 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 Santali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Santali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Santali time required is 44 weeks.