Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2128
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
30,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Kartli
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1320
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Russki
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
russe
géorgien
German Name
Russisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Russians
Georgians
Origin
1000 AD
5th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Southern
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Georgian
Language Position
7120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ru
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
kat
ISO 639 2/B
rus
geo
ISO 639 3
rus
kat
ISO 639 6
rus
kat
Glottocode
russ1263
nucl1302
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic