Countries
Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
334
0
46
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National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Russia
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
South Africa
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
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Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Latin
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
76
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Thank you
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
How are you?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
I love you
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Dialects
Dialect 1
American English
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
United States of America
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
Olonets
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Olonets
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Welsh English
Novgorod
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
18813
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
5.43 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
400.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
English
Русский
Alternative Names
English
Russki
French Name
anglais
russe
German Name
Englisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
English people
Russians
History
Origin
5th Century AD
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard English
Standard Russian
Language Position
37
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed English
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
en
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
eng
rus
ISO 639 2/B
eng
rus
ISO 639 3
eng
rus
ISO 639 6
engs
rus
Glottocode
stan1293
russ1263
Linguasphere
52-ABA
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic