Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
  
- 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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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Selam
  
您好
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
早上好
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
请
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
遗憾
  
Bye
tschao
  
再见
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
outside mainland China
  
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Hong Kong
  
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
52.00 million
  
21
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
Not Available
  
Native Name
Not Available
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
amharique
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
Not Available
  
Origin
13th century
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Amharic 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 Amharic and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Amharic and Cantonese language. Amharic word for "Hello" is Selam or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Amharic Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Amharic vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Amharic vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Amharic 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 Amharic and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Amharic and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Amharic is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.