Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Portugal
Russia
Second Language
United States of America
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
- 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
Spanish and Galician Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Latin
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Olá
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
obrigado
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Como você está?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
boa noite
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
boa Noite
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
bom Dia
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Por Favor
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
pesaroso
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
tchau
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Eu te amo
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
desculpe me
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Brazil
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Olonets
Where They Speak
Portugal
Olonets
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Novgorod
Native Name
Português
Русский
Alternative Names
Português
Russki
French Name
portugais
russe
German Name
Portugiesisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Russians
Origin
3rd Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Portuguese
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
port1283
russ1263
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic
Portuguese and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Portuguese and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Portuguese and Russian language. Portuguese word for "Hello" is Olá or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Portuguese Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Portuguese vs Russian Difficulty
The Portuguese vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Portuguese Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Portuguese and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Portuguese and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Portuguese is 24 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.