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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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)
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ເຊົ້າ (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)
ຂ້ອຍ​ຮັກ​ເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
ຂໍ​ໂທດ (kho othd)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

136
0 188
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How Many People Speak

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

History

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

Code

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

Russian and Lao Alphabets

Russian and Lao Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Lao. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Lao Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Russian and Lao languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Lao 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 Lao greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Lao are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Russian and Lao Speaking population

Russian and Lao speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Lao languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Lao Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Lao language is 0.22 %. 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 Lao on Russian vs Lao where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Lao Language Codes

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