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Vietnamese vs Cantonese

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Minority Language

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Interesting Facts

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Alphabets in

Alphabets

How Many Vowels

How Many Consonants

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Time Taken to Learn

Greetings

Hello

Thank You

How Are You?

Good Night

Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Good Morning

Please

Sorry

Bye

I Love You

Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

Dialect 2

Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

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Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

Total No. Of Dialects

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

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ISO 639 2/T

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Language Morphological Typology

 
Vietnam
1
Vietnam
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Asia
Czech Republic
-
  • The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
  • The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Chinese Language
Chinese Language
 
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
37
12
21
Latin
-
3
44 weeks
 
Xin chào
Cam on
Bạn khỏe không?
Chúc ngủ ngon
Chào buổi tối
Chào buổi trưa
Chào buổi sáng
xin vui lòng
Xin lỗi
Tạm biệt
tôi yêu bạn
Xin loi
 
Northern Vietnamese
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
76,000,000.00
North-central Vietnamese
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
76,000,000.00
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
76,000,000.00
5
 
91.00 million
1.14 %
75.00 million
16.00 million
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
vietnamien
Vietnamesisch
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
 
c. 1440
Austroasiatic Family
-
-
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Vietnamese
14
Vietnamese sign languages
Individual
 
vi
vie
vie
vie
vie
viet1252
46-EBA
Living
Subject-Verb-Object
Analytic, Isolating
 
Hong Kong, Macau
2
China, Guangdong
Not spoken in any of the countries
Asia
Hawaii
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  • 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.
Chinese Language
-
 
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
28
8
20
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
10
88 weeks
 
您好
谢谢
你好吗?
晚安
晚上好
下午好
早上好
遗憾
再见
我爱你
原谅我
 
Guangzhou
outside mainland China
71,000,000.00
Xiguan
Hong Kong
71,000,000.00
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
70,000,000.00
3
 
60.00 million
16.00 %
52.00 million
71.00 million
Kwang Tung Wa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
cantonais
Kantonesisch
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Han Chinese
 
17th century
Sino-Tibetan Family
-
-
No early forms
Standard Cantonese
1
Signed Cantonese
-
 
No data available
yue
yue
No data available
yue
cant1236
No data available
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-
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Vietnamese vs Cantonese Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Vietnamese vs Cantonese speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Vietnamese or Cantonese language.

  • Vietnamese is spoken as a national language in: .
  • Cantonese is spoken as a national language in: .

You will also get to know the continents where Vietnamese and Cantonese speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Vietnamese language is and position of Cantonese language is . Find all the information about these languages on Vietnamese and Cantonese.

Vietnamese and Cantonese Language History

Comparison of Vietnamese vs Cantonese language history gives us differences between origin of Vietnamese and Cantonese language. History of Vietnamese language states that this language originated in whereas history of Cantonese language states that this language originated in . 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 Vietnamese vs Cantonese.

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

Vietnamese vs Cantonese Difficulty

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