Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Hawaii
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3328
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
您好
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
谢谢
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
你好吗？
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
晚安
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
下午好
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
早上好
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
请
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
遗憾
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
再见
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
我爱你
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
30,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Olonets
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
133
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Русский
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Russki
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
russe
cantonais
German Name
Russisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Russians
Han Chinese
Origin
1000 AD
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
71
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ru
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
yue
ISO 639 2/B
rus
yue
ISO 639 3
rus
No data available
ISO 639 6
rus
yue
Glottocode
russ1263
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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