Cantonese and Sinhalese Speaking countries

Cantonese and Sinhalese as Minority Language

In Cantonese and Sinhalese speaking countries you will get the countries which have Cantonese and Sinhalese as minority language. The language which is spoken by minority of population in the country is called as minority language.

If you want to compare Cantonese and Sinhalese dialects, then you can go to Cantonese vs Sinhalese Dialects. Some of the official languages are also considered as minority languages.

Cantonese and Sinhalese Regulators

Cantonese and Sinhalese speaking countries provide you Cantonese and Sinhalese regulators which are the official organizations that regulate them. Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division regulates Cantonese language.Sinhalese is regulated by Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල). Also get to learn, Cantonese and Sinhalese Language History.

Cantonese and Sinhalese Continents

Thinking about Cantonese and Sinhalese continents in which Cantonese and Sinhalese speaking countries are present. Check out more information on Cantonese and Sinhalese. Most of the Cantonese speaking countries lie in Asia. While Sinhalese speaking countries lie in Asia. Continentwise, most of the languages belong to Asian Languages and African Languages. It's always fun to know about interesting facts of any language, so lets discuss about unknown facts of Cantonese and Sinhalese languages:

Cantonese 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.

Sinhalese Interesting Facts:

• In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
• Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.

The Cantonese language was derived from Not Available and is similar to Chinese Language whereas Cantonese language is similar to Maldivian Language and derived from Sanskrit Language.