Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
Ghana
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Interesting Facts
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
  
- 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
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Chinese Language
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ete-sen
  
您好
  
Thank You
meda ase
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
maadwo
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
maadwo
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
maaha
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
maakye
  
早上好
  
Please
wae
  
请
  
Sorry
Kafra
  
遗憾
  
Bye
bye
  
再见
  
I Love You
Me doכ wo
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Asante
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
outside mainland China
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
13
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Akuapem
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Fante
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
52.00 million
  
21
Native Name
Akan
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
akan
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Akan-Sprache
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Akan people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
15
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
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Branch
Not Available
  
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Akan
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ak
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aka
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
aka
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
aka
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
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Glottocode
akan1251
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Akan 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 Akan and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Akan and Cantonese language. Akan word for "Hello" is ete-sen or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Akan Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Akan vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Akan vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Akan 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 Akan and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Akan and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Akan is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.