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Countries

Countries

Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

324
0 46
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National Language

France
Russia

Second Language

Africa, Canada
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Interesting Facts

  • French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
  • French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  • 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

Italian Language
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

610
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2021
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bonjour
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Merci
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Comment allez-vous?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

bonne Nuit
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

bonsoir
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

bon Après-Midi
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

Bonjour
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

S'il vous plaît
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

désolé
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

au revoir
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Je t'aime
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Excuse Moi
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Quebec French
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

6,200,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

African French
Olonets

Where They Speak

Africa
Olonets

How Many People Speak

274,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Swiss French
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Northeast France, Switzerland
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2513
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

163.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.12 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

76.00 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

87.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

français
Русский

Alternative Names

Français
Russki

French Name

français
russe

German Name

Französisch
Russisch

Pronunciation

[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

French people
Russians

History

Origin

9th Century
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Romance
Slavic

Branch

-
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old French, Middle French and French
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Standard French
Standard Russian

Language Position

137
1 120
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Signed Forms

le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fr
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fra
rus

ISO 639 2/B

fre
rus

ISO 639 3

fra
rus

ISO 639 6

fras
rus

Glottocode

stan1290
russ1263

Linguasphere

51-AAA-i
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

French and Russian Alphabets

French and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in French and Russian. In French Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn French and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of French and Russian languages. The French phonology consist French vowels and French consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at French greetings vs Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether French and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

All French and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all French and Russian dialects. Various dialects of French and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of French are spoken in different French Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking French vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the French dialects include: Quebec French, African French. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

French and Russian Speaking population

French and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which French and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of French and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak French and Russian on French vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

French and Russian Language Codes

French and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. French and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.