Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Belarus, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Afganistan
Poland
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
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.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3348
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2139
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
dobry dzień
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Dziakuj
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Jak vy ?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Dabranač
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
dobry dzień
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Dobraj ranicy
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Kali laska
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Vybačajcie
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
da pabačennia
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
North-East Belarus
How Many People Speak
30,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
Olonets
South-West Belarus
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Middle Belarus
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
133
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million9.63 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million7.60 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million5.89 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Russki
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
russe
biélorusse
German Name
Russisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
Russians
Belarusians
Origin
1000 AD
18th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Belarusian
Language Position
779
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
be
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
bel
ISO 639 2/B
rus
bel
ISO 639 3
rus
bel
ISO 639 6
rus
bel
Glottocode
russ1263
bela1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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