Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
France
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Hawaii
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
- 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
Italian Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Latin
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
你好吗？
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
下午好
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
African French
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Africa
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
français
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Français
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
français
Not Available
German Name
Französisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
Origin
9th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard French
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
fr
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
fra
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
fre
Not Available
ISO 639 3
fra
No data available
ISO 639 6
fras
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1290
cant1236
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
French 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 French and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in French and Cantonese language. French word for "Hello" is bonjour or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common French Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
French vs Cantonese Difficulty
The French vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of French 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 French and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.