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Croatian vs Cantonese


Cantonese vs Croatian


Countries

Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
Hong Kong, Macau  

Total No. Of Countries
9  
7
2  
13

National Language
Austria  
China, Guangdong  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  
Hawaii  

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division  

Interesting Facts
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian  
Chinese Language  

Derived From
Church Slavonic  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
28  
10

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
25  
15
20  
10

Scripts
Latin  
Chinese Characters and derivatives  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
10  
8

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
88 weeks  
19

Greetings

Hello
bok  
您好  

Thank You
hvala  
谢谢  

How Are You?
kako si  
你好吗?  

Good Night
laku noć  
晚安  

Good Evening
dobra večer  
晚上好  

Good Afternoon
dobar dan  
下午好  

Good Morning
dobro jutro  
早上好  

Please
molim  
请  

Sorry
Oprostite  
遗憾  

Bye
Doviđenja  
再见  

I Love You
Volim te  
我爱你  

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se  
原谅我  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian  
Guangzhou  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
outside mainland China  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
99+
71,000,000.00  
13

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Xiguan  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Hong Kong  

How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00  
99+
71,000,000.00  
11

Dialect 3
Shtokavian  
Hong Kong  

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  
Hong Kong  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
28
70,000,000.00  
10

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million  
18
60.00 million  
27

Speaking Population
89.00 %  
1
16.00 %  
2

Native Speakers
5.60 million  
99+
52.00 million  
21

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million  
99+
71.00 million  
15

Native Name
hrvatski  
Kwang Tung Wa  

Alternative Names
Hrvatski  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese  

French Name
croate  
cantonais  

German Name
Kroatisch  
Kantonesisch  

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

Ethnicity
Croats  
Han Chinese  

History

Origin
9th century  
17th century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  
Standard Cantonese  

Language Position
23  
21
1  
1

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language  
Signed Cantonese  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
hr  
No data available  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv  
yue  

ISO 639 2/B
hrv  
yue  

ISO 639 3
hrv  
No data available  

ISO 639 6
hrv  
yue  

Glottocode
croa1245  
cant1236  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
-  

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Croatian and Cantonese Language History

Comparison of Croatian vs Cantonese language history gives us differences between origin of Croatian and Cantonese language. History of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century whereas history of Cantonese language states that this language originated in 17th century. 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 Croatian and Cantonese Language History.

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

Croatian vs Cantonese Difficulty

The Croatian vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Cantonese 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 Croatian and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.

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