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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

49
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Austria

Second Language

Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3330
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2125
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Latin

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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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
bok

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
hvala

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
kako si

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
laku noć

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
dobar dan

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
dobro jutro

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
molim

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
Oprostite

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
Doviđenja

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Volim te

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Croatia

How Many People Speak

30,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Olonets
Croatia

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1379
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Russki
Hrvatski

French Name

russe
croate

German Name

Russisch
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Russians
Croats

History

Origin

1000 AD
9th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
-

Branch

Eastern
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

723
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

rus
hrv

ISO 639 3

rus
hrv

ISO 639 6

rus
hrv

Glottocode

russ1263
croa1245

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Russian and Croatian Alphabets

Russian and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Croatian. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Russian and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Russian and Croatian Speaking population

Russian and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Croatian on Russian vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Croatian Language Codes

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