Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
France
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Hawaii
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
- 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
Italian Language
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?
Comment allez-vous?
你好吗？
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
下午好
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
African French
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Africa
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Hong Kong
Native Name
français
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Français
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
français
cantonais
German Name
Französisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
French people
Han Chinese
Origin
9th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard French
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed Cantonese
ISO 639 1
fr
No data available
ISO 639 3
fra
No data available
Glottocode
stan1290
cant1236
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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French and Cantonese Speaking population
French and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which French and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of French and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak French and Cantonese on French vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
French and Cantonese Language Codes
French and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. French and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.