Vietnamese vs Cantonese - Language

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Vietnamese Language

Mastering Vietnamese will take from you 1100 hours or 44 weeks in a class according to FSI. Difficulty category for mastering it is evaluated 2 point.

Cantonese Language

Learning Cantonese might seem like a overwhelming thing to do. FSI has concluded that it takes 2200 hours or 88 weeks in a class to learn the language. The difficulty point is 3.

Vietnamese Community

You will most likely find people, who speaks Vietnamese in Vietnam, Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Finland, France, Germany, Laos, Martinique, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Norway, Philippines, Senegal, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA, and Vanuatu.
Number of native speakers is about 75,000,000.
Number of fluent speakers is about 76,000,000. The biggest country in which Vietnamese is used as a native language is Vietnam.

Cantonese Community

Native speakers of Cantonese are mostly from People’s Republic of China (PRC) and are about 52,000,000 people.
Cantonese are spoken fluently by 62,000,000 people.
The language is spoken in People’s Republic of China (PRC), Hong Kong, US.

Vietnamese Origin

Vietnamese came from Mon-Khmer branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family.

Cantonese Origin

Sino Tibetan language family is the origin of Cantonese language.