Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
45
0
46
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National Language
Russia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Afganistan
Republic of Brazil
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
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1024
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
30,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Wu
Where They Speak
Olonets
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Yue
Where They Speak
Novgorod
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Russki
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
russe
chinois
German Name
Russisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Russians
Han
Origin
1000 AD
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Chinese
Language Position
71
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
zho
ISO 639 2/B
rus
chi
ISO 639 3
rus
zho
ISO 639 6
rus
zho
Glottocode
russ1263
sini1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating