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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

433
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Afganistan
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
South Africa

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

67
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Hello

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
Thank you

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
How are you?

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Night

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Good Morning

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Please

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
Sorry

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
Bye

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
I love you

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
American English

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
United States of America

How Many People Speak

30,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Olonets
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Novgorod
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

13188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
English

Alternative Names

Russki
English

French Name

russe
anglais

German Name

Russisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Russians
English people

History

Origin

1000 AD
5th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
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Branch

Eastern
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Standard English

Language Position

73
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
eng

ISO 639 2/B

rus
eng

ISO 639 3

rus
eng

ISO 639 6

rus
engs

Glottocode

russ1263
stan1293

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Russian and English Alphabets

Russian and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and English. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Russian and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Russian and English Speaking population

Russian and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and English languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Russian vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and English Language Codes

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