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Countries

Countries

Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

74
0 46
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National Language

Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
Russia

Second Language

Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Interesting Facts

  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  • 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

French and Portuguese Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

Latin
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2133
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1621
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

ciao
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

grazie
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Come stai?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

buonanotte
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

buonasera
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

buon pomeriggio
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

buongiorno
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

Per Favore
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

scusate
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

arrivederci
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Ti amo
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Scusami
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Romanesco
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Lazio
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Central Italian
Olonets

Where They Speak

Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
Olonets

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Tuscan
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1513
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

78.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.90 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

64.00 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

14.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Italiano
Русский

Alternative Names

Italiano
Russki

French Name

italien
russe

German Name

Italienisch
Russisch

Pronunciation

[itaˈljaːno]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Italians
Russians

History

Origin

960 BC
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Romance
Slavic

Branch

-
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Italian
Standard Russian

Language Position

277
1 120
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Signed Forms

italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

it
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ita
rus

ISO 639 2/B

ita
rus

ISO 639 3

ita
rus

ISO 639 6

itas
rus

Glottocode

ital1282
russ1263

Linguasphere

51-AAA-q
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

Italian and Russian Alphabets

Italian and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Italian and Russian. In Italian Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Italian and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Italian and Russian languages. The Italian phonology consist Italian vowels and Italian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Italian greetings vs Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Italian and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Italian 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 Italian and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Italian and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Italian are spoken in different Italian Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Italian vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Italian dialects include: Romanesco, Central Italian. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Italian and Russian Speaking population

Italian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Italian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Italian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Italian language is 0.90 % 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 Italian and Russian on Italian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Italian and Russian Language Codes

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