Countries
India, Nepal
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Nepal
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Hawaii
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
- 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
Hindi
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
您好
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
谢谢
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
你好吗？
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
晚安
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
下午好
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
早上好
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
遗憾
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
我爱你
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Doteli
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Nepal
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Xiguan
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Nepal
Hong Kong
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
népalais
Not Available
German Name
Nepali
Not Available
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Not Available
Origin
19 BC
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Not Available
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
nep
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
nep
Not Available
ISO 639 3
npi
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nepa1254
cant1236
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available
Nepali 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 Nepali and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Cantonese language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Nepali vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali 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 Nepali and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.