×

Russian
Russian

Greek
Greek



ADD
Compare
X
Russian
X
Greek

Russian and Greek

Add ⊕

Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

43
0 46
👆🏻

National Language

Russia
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Afganistan
Roman Empire

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
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Armenian

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3324
18 247
👆🏻

Phonology

How Many Vowels

107
0 32
👆🏻

How Many Consonants

2117
9 60
👆🏻

Scripts

Cyrillic
Arabic, Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
👆🏻

Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
👆🏻

Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Greece

How Many People Speak

30,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
👆🏻

Dialect 2

Olonets
Griko

Where They Speak

Olonets
Italy

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
👆🏻

Dialect 3

Novgorod
Mariupol

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Ukraine

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
👆🏻

Total No. Of Dialects

1325
0 188
👆🏻

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million13.00 million
0 1200
👆🏻

Speaking Population

2.33 %0.18 %
0 89
👆🏻

Native Speakers

166.00 million13.00 million
0 873
👆🏻

Second Language Speakers

110.00 million13.00 million
0.01 400
👆🏻

Native Name

Русский
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Russki
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

russe
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Russisch
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

Russians
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

1000 AD
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Hellenic

Branch

Eastern
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Modern Greek

Language Position

774
1 120
👆🏻

Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Greek Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
ell

ISO 639 2/B

rus
gre

ISO 639 3

rus
ell

ISO 639 6

rus
ells

Glottocode

russ1263
gree1276

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Russian and Greek Alphabets

Russian and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Greek. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Russian and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Russian and Greek Speaking population

Russian and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on Russian vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Greek Language Codes

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