Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
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.
  
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
Halo
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
晚安
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
请
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
maaf
  
Bye
再见
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
Not Available
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
17th century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Indonesian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
indo1316
  
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 Indonesian 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 Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Indonesian language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Indonesian Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Indonesian 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 Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.