Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, Guangdong
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia
Minority Language
South Africa
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
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Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
How Are You?
How are you?
你好吗？
Good Evening
Good Evening
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
下午好
Good Morning
Good Morning
早上好
I Love You
I love you
我爱你
Dialect 1
American English
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
United States of America
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Welsh English
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
Hong Kong
Native Name
English
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
English
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
anglais
cantonais
German Name
Englisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
English people
Han Chinese
Origin
5th Century AD
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard English
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
Signed English
Signed Cantonese
ISO 639 1
en
No data available
ISO 639 3
eng
No data available
Glottocode
stan1293
cant1236
Linguasphere
52-ABA
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
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English 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 English and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in English and Cantonese language. English word for "Hello" is Hello or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common English Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
English vs Cantonese Difficulty
The English vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of English 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 English and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in English and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn English is 6 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.