Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
44
0
46
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National Language
India
Russia
Second Language
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Israel, Mauritius
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
- 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
Konkani Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
बाय (Bāya)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Maharashtrian Konkani
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Kokan
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Varhadi
Olonets
Where They Speak
Vidarbha
Olonets
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khandeshi
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Khandesh
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
4213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
71.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.10 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
68.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मराठी (marāṭhī)
Русский
Alternative Names
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
Russki
French Name
marathe
russe
German Name
Marathi
Russisch
Pronunciation
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Marathi people
Russians
Origin
10th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Marathi
Standard Russian
Language Position
177
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mr
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mar
rus
ISO 639 2/B
mar
rus
ISO 639 3
mar
rus
ISO 639 6
mar
rus
Glottocode
mara1378
russ1263
Linguasphere
omr
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic