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
-
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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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)
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1331
0
188
👆🏻
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)
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
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