Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
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46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary