Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Turkey
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Hawaii
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
- 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
Azerbaijani Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Turkish-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
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
谢谢
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
你好吗？
Good Night
İyi Geceler
晚安
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
下午好
Good Morning
günaydın
早上好
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
我爱你
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
原谅我
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Türkçe
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
turc
Not Available
German Name
Türkisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Turkish
Not Available
Origin
c. 1350
17th century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Not Available
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
tr
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
tur
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
tur
Not Available
ISO 639 3
tur
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1301
cant1236
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available
Turkish 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 Turkish and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Cantonese language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Turkish vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish 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 Turkish and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.