Countries
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
64
0
46
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National Language
Moldova, Romania
Russia
Second Language
Kazakhstan, Russia
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
- 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
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Latin
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3133
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
710
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
alo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
multumesc
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
ce mai faci?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
noapte Buna
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
buna Seara
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
buna Ziua
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
bună Dimineața
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Vă Rog
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
scuze
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
La revedere
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Te iubesc
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Scuza-Ma
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Aromanian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
250,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Megleno-Romanian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
Olonets
How Many People Speak
5,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Istro-Romanian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Croatia
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
1,400.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1013
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
24.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Română
Русский
Alternative Names
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
Russki
French Name
roumain; moldave
russe
German Name
Rumänisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[roˈmɨnə]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Romanians
Russians
Origin
1521
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Romanian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Romanian
Standard Russian
Language Position
367
1
120
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Signed Forms
Romanian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ro
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ron
rus
ISO 639 2/B
rum
rus
ISO 639 3
ron
rus
ISO 639 6
ron
rus
Glottocode
roma1327
russ1263
Linguasphere
51-AAD-c
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic