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Cantonese vs German


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Countries

Countries
Hong Kong, Macau  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
7  
8

National Language
China, Guangdong  
Germany  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
North Dakota, United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
Hawaii  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  

Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division  
Council for German Orthography  

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.
  
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  

Similar To
Chinese Language  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Albanian Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
28  
10
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
10  
7

How Many Consonants
20  
10
9  
1

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
10  
8
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

Hello
您好  
hallo  

Thank You
谢谢  
Danke  

How Are You?
你好吗?  
Wie geht es dir?  

Good Night
晚安  
gute Nacht  

Good Evening
晚上好  
guten Abend  

Good Afternoon
下午好  
guten Tag  

Good Morning
早上好  
guten Morgen  

Please
请  
bitte  

Sorry
遗憾  
Verzeihung  

Bye
再见  
Tschüs  

I Love You
我爱你  
Ich liebe dich  

Excuse Me
原谅我  
Entschuldigung  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Guangzhou  
Swiss German  

Where They Speak
outside mainland China  
Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
4,500,000.00  
18

Dialect 2
Xiguan  
Swabian German  

Where They Speak
Hong Kong  
Germany  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
820,000.00  
26

Dialect 3
Hong Kong  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
Hong Kong  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
6,000.00  
35

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
60.00 million  
27
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
1.39 %  
12

Native Speakers
52.00 million  
21
101.00 million  
10

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
128.00 million  
5

Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa  
Deutsch  

Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese  
Deutsch, Tedesco  

French Name
Not Available  
allemand  

German Name
Not Available  
Deutsch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
Germans  

History

Origin
17th century  
6th Century AD  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Germanic  

Branch
Not Available  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  

Language Position
Not Available  
9  
9

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed German  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
de  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
Not Available  
deu  

ISO 639 2/B
Not Available  
ger  

ISO 639 3
No data available  
deu  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
deus  

Glottocode
cant1236  
high1287, uppe1397  

Linguasphere
No data available  
52-ACB–dl & -dm  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Cantonese and German Language History

Comparison of Cantonese vs German language history gives us differences between origin of Cantonese and German language. History of Cantonese language states that this language originated in 17th century whereas history of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Cantonese and German Language History.

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Cantonese and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and German language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Cantonese vs German Difficulty

The Cantonese vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.

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