Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
谢谢
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
你好吗？
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
晚安
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
晚上好
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
早上好
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
请
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
遗憾
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
再见
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
我爱你
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
原谅我
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Olonets
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Novgorod
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Русский
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Russki
French Name
cantonais
russe
German Name
Kantonesisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Russians
Origin
17th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Russian
ISO 639 1
No data available
ru
ISO 639 3
No data available
rus
Glottocode
cant1236
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic
All Cantonese and Russian Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Russian Speaking population
Cantonese and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Russian on Cantonese vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Russian Language Codes
Cantonese and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.