Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
- 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
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
您好
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
早上好
  
Please
لطفا
  
请
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
遗憾
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
再见
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
outside mainland China
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
52.00 million
  
21
Native Name
فارسی
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
persan
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Persian and Cantonese Speaking population
Persian and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Persian and Cantonese on Persian vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Persian and Cantonese Language Codes
Persian and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Persian and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.