Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Hawaii
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written 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
Czech Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
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?
Ako sa máte?
你好吗？
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
下午好
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
早上好
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Hong Kong
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
slovenčina
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
slovaque
Not Available
German Name
Slowakisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Not Available
Origin
6th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Slovak
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
sk
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
slk
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
slo
Not Available
ISO 639 3
slk
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
slov1269
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available
Slovak 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 Slovak and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovak and Cantonese language. Slovak word for "Hello" is Ahoj or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Slovak Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovak vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Slovak vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovak 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 Slovak and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovak and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovak is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.