Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
Tere
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
晚安
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
请
  
Palun
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
再见
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
0.95 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
Not Available
  
estonien
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Estonians
  
Origin
17th century
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Estonian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Cantonese and Estonian 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 Cantonese and Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Estonian language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Estonian Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Estonian 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 Cantonese and Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.