Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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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.
- There is no space left between words, only between phrases or sentences in Lao language.
- The Lao alphabets has been reformed many times over the past 50 years.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1028
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2127
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Thai and Lao Braille
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)
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Laos
How Many People Speak
30,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Olonets
Laos
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Central Lao
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Laos
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
136
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.22 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million25.00 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
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Russki
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
French Name
russe
lao
German Name
Russisch
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
Russians
Lao people
Origin
1000 AD
1283 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Tai
Branch
Eastern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Lao
Language Position
743
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Lao Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
lao
ISO 639 2/B
rus
lao
ISO 639 3
rus
lao
ISO 639 6
rus
lao
Glottocode
russ1263
laoo1244
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Isolating