# Nikon lens manual in 20 languages

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**Created:** [April 23, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikon-lens-manual-in-20-languages/852435 "2020-04-23T13:14:16Z")\
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Usually I just see English, French, Spanish and maybe a few more. Anyone see more than 20 in a manual?

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> [@Bijou\_Drains](#):
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> Usually I just see English, French, Spanish and maybe a few more. Anyone see more than 20 in a manual?

I dug up a Quick Guide from a recent Canon lens purchase. It has the following:  
[ol]  
[li]English[/li][li]French[/li][li]German[/li][li]Spanish[/li][li]Italian[/li][li]Netherlands[/li][li]Sweden[/li][li]Danish[/li][li]Finnish[/li][li]Russian[/li][li]Chinese[/li][li]Taiwan[/li][li]Korean[/li][li]Japanese[/li][/ol]

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**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikon-lens-manual-in-20-languages/852435/3 "2020-04-23T14:33:20Z")

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> [@Telemark](#):
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> [li]Chinese[/li][li]Taiwan[/li]

These are different?

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Probably Mandarin and Cantonese, but they were labeled CHI and FOR (Formosa?).

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If there are different sets of instructions for “China” and for “Taiwan / Formosa” I would guess they would both be in Mandarin (Cantonese would be [more for Hong Kong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong#Demographics)), but with one set of instructions in [Simplified Chinese characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters) (for Mainland China) and one in [Traditional Chinese characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters) (for Taiwan).