Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
您好
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
早上好
  
Please
Please
  
请
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
遗憾
  
Bye
Bye
  
再见
  
I Love You
I love you
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
outside mainland China
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
52.00 million
  
21
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
anglais
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
English and Cantonese 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 English and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in English and Cantonese language. English word for "Hello" is Hello or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common English Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
English vs Cantonese Difficulty
The English vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of English Alphabets and Cantonese 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 English and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in English and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn English is 6 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.