Countries
India
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
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Not Available
Alphabets in
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
你好吗？
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Not Available
下午好
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
早上好
I Love You
Not Available
我爱你
Excuse Me
Not Available
原谅我
Dialect 1
Mahali
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
India
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Not present
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Not present
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Not Available
Hong Kong
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
santal
Not Available
German Name
Santali
Not Available
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Not Available
Origin
20th century
17th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
sat
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
sat
Not Available
ISO 639 3
sat
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sant1410
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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Santali 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 Santali and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Santali and Cantonese language. Santali word for "Hello" is Henda ho or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Santali Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Santali vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Santali vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Santali 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 Santali and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Santali and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Santali is Not Available while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.