Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Portugal
China, Guangdong
Second Language
United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Hawaii
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
- 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
Spanish and Galician Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Latin
Not Available
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
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?
Como você está?
你好吗？
Good Evening
boa Noite
晚上好
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
下午好
Excuse Me
desculpe me
原谅我
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Brazil
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Portugal
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Português
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Português
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
portugais
Not Available
German Name
Portugiesisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Not Available
Origin
3rd Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
No early forms
Standard Forms
Portuguese
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
pt
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
por
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
por
Not Available
ISO 639 3
por
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
port1283
cant1236
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Portuguese 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 Portuguese and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Portuguese and Cantonese language. Portuguese word for "Hello" is Olá or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Portuguese Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Portuguese vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Portuguese vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Portuguese 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 Portuguese and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Portuguese and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Portuguese is 24 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.