Countries
United States of America
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
United States of America
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
North America
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
- Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
- Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.
- 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
Apache Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Yá'át'ééh
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Ahéhee'
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
T'aa shoodi
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Nízhdził
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Hágoónee’
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Shoohá
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Navajo1
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Arizona
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
170,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Navajo2
Olonets
Where They Speak
New Mexico
Olonets
How Many People Speak
170,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Navajo3
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Utah
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
120,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
413
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.17 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
Русский
Alternative Names
Navaho
Russki
French Name
navaho
russe
German Name
Navajo-Sprache
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈnævəhoʊ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Navajo people
Russians
Origin
1500 CE
1000 AD
Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Athapascan
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Navajo
Standard Russian
Language Position
297
1
120
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Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nv
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nav
rus
ISO 639 2/B
nav
rus
ISO 639 3
nav
rus
ISO 639 6
nav
rus
Glottocode
nava1243
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic