Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Hong Kong, Macau
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
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
Not Available
Where They Speak
Olonets
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Hong Kong
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Russki
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
russe
Not Available
German Name
Russisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Not Available
Origin
1000 AD
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
ru
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
rus
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
rus
Not Available
ISO 639 3
rus
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
All Russian and Cantonese 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 Russian and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Russian and Cantonese Speaking population
Russian and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Russian and Cantonese on Russian vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and Cantonese Language Codes
Russian and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.