Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Ethiopia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
107
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2131
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Selam
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
i'bakwon
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
aznallehu
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
tschao
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Gondar
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Gondar
How Many People Speak
30,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Olonets
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Showa
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
135
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Russki
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
russe
amharique
German Name
Russisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Russians
Amharas
Origin
1000 AD
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Semitic
Branch
Eastern
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Amharic
Language Position
755
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
amh
ISO 639 2/B
rus
amh
ISO 639 3
rus
amh
ISO 639 6
rus
amh
Glottocode
russ1263
amha1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional