Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Total No. Of Countries
45
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National Language
Russia
North Korea, South Korea
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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