Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Lithuania
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Poland
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Latvian
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3332
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Sveiki
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Ačiū
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Labanakt
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Laba diena
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Labas rytas
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Prašom
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
atsiprašau
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Ate
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
30,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Olonets
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Curonian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
2.33 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Русский
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Russki
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
russe
lituanien
German Name
Russisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Russians
Lithuanians
Origin
1000 AD
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Lithuanian
Language Position
744
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
lit
ISO 639 2/B
rus
lit
ISO 639 3
rus
lit
ISO 639 6
rus
lit
Glottocode
russ1263
lith1251
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic