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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Japan

Second Language

Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Korean Language

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3399
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2114
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

30,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Hakata

Where They Speak

Olonets
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Kansai

Where They Speak

Novgorod
kansai

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1331
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
日本語

Alternative Names

Russki
Nihongo

French Name

russe
japonais

German Name

Russisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Russians
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

1000 AD
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Slavic
-

Branch

Eastern
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Japanese

Language Position

78
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

rus
jpn

ISO 639 3

rus
jpn

ISO 639 6

rus
jpn

Glottocode

russ1263
nucl1643

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Russian and Japanese Alphabets

Russian and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Japanese. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Russian and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Russian and Japanese Speaking population

Russian and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Russian vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Japanese Language Codes

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