Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
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.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Swahili-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
  
Habari
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
晚安
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
请
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
pole
  
Bye
再见
  
bye
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Zanzibar island
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Dar es Salaam
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
15.00 million
  
40
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
Not Available
  
swahili
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
17th century
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Swahili
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Cantonese and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Swahili language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Swahili Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.