Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
France, Spain
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
- 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
Spanish
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Kaixo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Gabon
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Egun on
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Mesedez
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Barkatu
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Agur
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Maite zaitut
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Barkatu
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
France
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Souletin
Olonets
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Biscayan
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Spain
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Not available
Русский
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Russki
German Name
Baskisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Basque people
Russians
Language Family
Vasconic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Basque
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
basq1248
russ1263
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
Basque and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Basque and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Basque and Russian language. Basque word for "Hello" is Kaixo or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Basque Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Basque vs Russian Difficulty
The Basque vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Basque Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Basque and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Basque and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Basque is 88 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.