Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
晚安
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
请
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
再见
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
Not Available
  
hindi
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
17th century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Standard Hindi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Cantonese and Hindi 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 Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Hindi language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Hindi Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Hindi 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 Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.