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Portuguese vs Russian


Russian vs Portuguese


Countries

Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
10   
6
4   
11

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

Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
23   
5
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
10   
7

How Many Consonants
19   
9
21   
11

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese   
Doukhobor Russian   

Where They Speak
Brazil   
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   

How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00   
4
30,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
European Portuguese   
Olonets   

Where They Speak
Portugal   
Olonets   

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00   
9
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole   
Novgorod   

Where They Speak
Daman and Diu   
Novgorod   

How Many People Speak
4,000.00   
36
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
26   
22
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
231.00 million   
7
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
3.27 %   
7
2.33 %   
9

Native Speakers
216.00 million   
5
166.00 million   
8

Second Language Speakers
15.00 million   
18
110.00 million   
7

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   

History

Origin
3rd Century   
1000 AD   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   

Subgroup
Romance   
Slavic   

Branch
Not Available   
Eastern   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Medieval Galician   
Old East Slavic   

Standard Forms
Portuguese   
Standard Russian   

Language Position
6   
6
7   
7

Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
pt   
ru   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
por   
rus   

ISO 639 2/B
por   
rus   

ISO 639 3
por   
rus   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
port1283   
russ1263   

Linguasphere
51-AAA-a   
53-AAA-ea   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Portuguese and Russian Language History

Comparison of Portuguese vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Portuguese and Russian language. History of Portuguese language states that this language originated in 3rd Century whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Portuguese and Russian Language History.

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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.

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