1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
请
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
再见
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Russki
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic