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
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Russki
  
French Name
Not Available
  
russe
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Russians
  
Origin
17th century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic