Countries
Belarus, Poland
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Hawaii
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish 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
Russian and Ukrainian
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4828
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3920
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
dobry dzień
您好
Thank You
Dziakuj
谢谢
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
你好吗？
Good Night
Dabranač
晚安
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
晚上好
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
下午好
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
早上好
Please
Kali laska
请
Sorry
Vybačajcie
遗憾
Bye
da pabačennia
再见
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
我爱你
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
原谅我
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
biélorusse
cantonais
German Name
Weißrussisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Belarusians
Han Chinese
Origin
18th century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Belarusian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
791
1
120
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Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
be
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
yue
ISO 639 2/B
bel
yue
ISO 639 3
bel
No data available
ISO 639 6
bel
yue
Glottocode
bela1254
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-