Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India, Nepal
National Language
China, Guangdong
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Hindi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
谢谢
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
你好吗？
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
晚安
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
晚上好
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Good afternoon
Good Morning
早上好
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Sorry
遗憾
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
I Love You
我爱你
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
原谅我
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Doteli
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India, Nepal
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Nepal
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
Not Available
népalais
German Name
Not Available
Nepali
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
17th century
19 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Nepali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ne
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
nep
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
nep
ISO 639 3
No data available
npi
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cant1236
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative
All Cantonese and Nepali Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Nepali dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Nepali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Nepali Dialects are spoken in different Nepali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Nepali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Nepali dialects include: Doteli , Bajhangi. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Nepali Speaking population
Cantonese and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Cantonese and Nepali on Cantonese vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Nepali Language Codes
Cantonese and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.