Countries
Burkina Faso
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
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Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1621
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kia ora
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Laafi bala
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Ne y yungo
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
ne y zabre
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
gafare
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
gafare
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Y gafare
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Olonets
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Olonets
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Taolende
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
813
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Mosse
Русский
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Russki
French Name
moré
russe
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Russisch
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Russians
Origin
11th Century AD
1000 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Slavic
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Mossi
Standard Russian
Language Position
377
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
rus
ISO 639 2/B
mos
rus
ISO 639 3
mos
rus
ISO 639 6
mos
rus
Glottocode
moss1236
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic