Countries
Indonesia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
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46
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National Language
Indonesia
Russia
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary