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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Total No. Of Countries

423
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Second Language

Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa, Asia

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
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

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.
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3328
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

108
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2128
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
مرحبا

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
شكرا

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
مساء الخير

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
صباح الخير

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
من فضلك

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
آسف

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
وداعا

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
أحبك

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

30,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Sudanese

Where They Speak

Olonets
Sudan

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Levantine

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1326
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Russki
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

russe
arabe

German Name

Russisch
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Russians
Arabs

History

Origin

1000 AD
512 CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Semitic

Branch

Eastern
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

725
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
ara

ISO 639 2/B

rus
ara

ISO 639 3

rus
ara

ISO 639 6

rus
ara

Glottocode

russ1263
arab1395

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Russian and Arabic Alphabets

Russian and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Arabic. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Russian and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Arabic 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 Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

All Russian and Arabic 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 Arabic dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Arabic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Arabic Dialects are spoken in different Arabic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Arabic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi , Sudanese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Russian and Arabic Speaking population

Russian and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. 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 Arabic on Russian vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Arabic Language Codes

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