Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
سلام
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
晚安
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
请
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
متاسف
  
Bye
再见
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
Not Available
  
persan
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Persian people
  
Origin
17th century
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Persian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Cantonese and Persian Speaking population
Cantonese and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Cantonese vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Persian Language Codes
Cantonese and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.