Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Germany
Russia
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- 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 English Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
hallo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Danke
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
guten Abend
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
bitte
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Verzeihung
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Tschüs
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Olonets
Where They Speak
Germany
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Texas German
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Texas
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
Deutsch
Русский
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Russki
French Name
allemand
russe
German Name
Deutsch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Germans
Russians
Origin
6th Century AD
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
russ1263
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
German and Russian Speaking population
German and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % 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 German and Russian on German vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
German and Russian Language Codes
German and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.