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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council

Total No. Of Countries

45
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland

Second Language

Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language 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.
  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Norwegian and Swedish

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3329
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1020
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2120
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Hallo

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
Mange tak

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Hvordan har du det?

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
God nat

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
God aften

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
God eftermiddag

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
God morgen

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Please

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
Undskyld!

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
Farvel

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Jeg elsker dig

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Undskyld mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Scanian

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Sweden

How Many People Speak

30,000.0080,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Jutlandic

Where They Speak

Olonets
Denmark

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.006,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Bornholmsk

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Island of Bornholm

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.006,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

134
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million5.50 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million5.50 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
dansk

Alternative Names

Russki
Dansk, Rigsdansk

French Name

russe
danois

German Name

Russisch
Dänisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]

Ethnicity

Russians
Danish people or Danes

History

Origin

1000 AD
c. 1100 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
-

Branch

Eastern
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Rigsdansk

Language Position

718
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Signed Danish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
da

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
dan

ISO 639 2/B

rus
dan

ISO 639 3

rus
dan

ISO 639 6

rus
dan

Glottocode

russ1263
dani1284

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional

Russian and Danish Alphabets

Russian and Danish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Danish. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Danish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Russian and Danish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Danish 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 Danish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Danish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Russian and Danish Speaking population

Russian and Danish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Danish languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Danish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 %. 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 Danish on Russian vs Danish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Danish Language Codes

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