Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
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
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2833
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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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
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Olonets
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Olonets
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Russian
Language Position
17
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Russian
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
rus
ISO 639 2/B
yue
rus
ISO 639 3
No data available
rus
ISO 639 6
yue
rus
Glottocode
cant1236
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic