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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
24
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
1.8 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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2824
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
85
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2021
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
103
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks36 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好
Habari
3.2 Thank You
谢谢
Asante
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗?
Habari gani?
3.4 Good Night
晚安
Usiku mwema
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
Habari za jioni
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
nzuri Alasiri
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
Habari za asubuhi
3.8 Please
tafadhali
3.9 Sorry
遗憾
pole
3.10 Bye
再见
bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
nakupenda
3.12 Excuse Me
原谅我
Samahani
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Kiunguja
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Zanzibar island
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Xiguan
Kimrima
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Dar es Salaam
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Kimgao
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Kilwa
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
312
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million150.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
16.00 %NA
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million15.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NANA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.3.4 French Name
Not Available
swahili
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
Swahili
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
6th century
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Bantu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Swahili
6.3.3 Language Position
NANA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
No data available
sw
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
swa
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
swa
7.3 ISO 639 3
No data available
swa
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
cant1236
swah1254
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-m
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Not Available
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available

Cantonese and Swahili Alphabets

Cantonese and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Swahili. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Cantonese and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Swahili languages. The Cantonese phonology consist Cantonese vowels and Cantonese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Cantonese greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Cantonese and Swahili 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 Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Cantonese and Swahili Speaking population

Cantonese and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available. 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 Swahili on Cantonese vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Swahili Language Codes

Cantonese and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.