Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
National Language
China, Guangdong
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Azerbaijani Language
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
谢谢
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
你好吗？
Nasılsın?
Good Night
晚安
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
晚上好
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
下午好
Tünaydın
Good Morning
早上好
günaydın
I Love You
我爱你
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
原谅我
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
cantonais
turc
German Name
Kantonesisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Turkish
Origin
17th century
c. 1350
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Turkish Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
tr
ISO 639 3
No data available
tur
Glottocode
cant1236
nucl1301
Linguasphere
No data available
44-AAB-a
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic
Cantonese and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Turkish language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Turkish Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.