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Cantonese vs Nepali


Nepali vs Cantonese


Countries

Countries
Hong Kong, Macau  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
China, Guangdong  
Nepal  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Brazil  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Hawaii  
People's Republic of China  

Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division  
Language Academy of Nepal  

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.
  
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  

Similar To
Chinese Language  
Hindi  

Derived From
Not Available  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
28  
10
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
12  
9

How Many Consonants
20  
10
36  
26

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Devanagari  

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
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
您好  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

Thank You
谢谢  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)  

How Are You?
你好吗?  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)  

Good Night
晚安  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)  

Good Evening
晚上好  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)  

Good Afternoon
下午好  
Good afternoon  

Good Morning
早上好  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)  

Please
请  
कृपया  

Sorry
遗憾  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Bye
再见  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

I Love You
我爱你  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)  

Excuse Me
原谅我  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Guangzhou  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
outside mainland China  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
790,000.00  
30

Dialect 2
Xiguan  
Bajhangi  

Where They Speak
Hong Kong  
India, Nepal  

Dialect 3
Hong Kong  
Baitadeli  

Where They Speak
Hong Kong  
Nepal  

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
60.00 million  
27
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
52.00 million  
21
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
5.00 million  
29

Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa  
नेपाली (nēpālī)  

Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate  

French Name
Not Available  
népalais  

German Name
Not Available  
Nepali  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu  

History

Origin
17th century  
19 BC  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Not Available  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  

Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese  
Nepali  

Language Position
Not Available  
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
ne  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
Not Available  
nep  

ISO 639 2/B
Not Available  
nep  

ISO 639 3
No data available  
npi  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
cant1236  
nepa1254  

Linguasphere
No data available  
12  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Agglutinative  

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Cantonese and Nepali Language History

Comparison of Cantonese vs Nepali language history gives us differences between origin of Cantonese and Nepali language. History of Cantonese language states that this language originated in 17th century whereas history of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 BC. 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 Nepali Language History.

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

Cantonese vs Nepali Difficulty

The Cantonese vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.

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