Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
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.
  
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
晚安
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
请
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
再见
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Israel, kerala
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
38.00 million
  
33
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
38.00 million
  
26
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
Not Available
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Malayali
  
Origin
17th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Malayalam
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
mala1464
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Cantonese and Malayalam 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 Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Malayalam language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Malayalam 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 Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.