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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Russia
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
32
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
15
Rank: 12 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
17
Rank: 7 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
hallo
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
goeie more
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
jammer
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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30,000.00
Rank: 46 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Olonets
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Olonets
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Novgorod
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Novgorod
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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13
Rank: 13 (Overall)
3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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276.00 million
Rank: 6 (Overall)
19.00 million
Rank: 43 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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2.33 %
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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166.00 million
Rank: 8 (Overall)
7.10 million
Rank: 58 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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110.00 million
Rank: 7 (Overall)
10.30 million
Rank: 22 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
Русский
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Russki
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
russe
afrikaans
5.3.5 German Name
Russisch
Afrikaans
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
Russians
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
1000 AD
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Slavic
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Eastern
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: 7 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ru
af
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
rus
afr
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
rus
afr
7.3 ISO 639 3
rus
afr
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
afrs
7.5 Glottocode
russ1263
afri1274
7.6 Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic

Russian and Afrikaans Alphabets

Russian and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Afrikaans. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Russian and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Afrikaans languages. The Russian phonology consist Russian vowels and Russian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Russian greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All Russian and Afrikaans Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Russian and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Russian and Afrikaans Speaking population

Russian and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Afrikaans on Russian vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Afrikaans Language Codes

Russian and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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