Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
India, Nepal
Second Language
Afganistan
Nepal
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3347
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2122
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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)
pranam
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Suprabhaat
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
kripaya
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
maf karai
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Alavidā
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
kripaya
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Nepal
How Many People Speak
30,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Olonets
North India
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Khortha
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1315
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Russki
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
russe
maithili
German Name
Russisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Russians
Maithil
Origin
1000 AD
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Eastern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Maithili
Language Position
740
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
mai
ISO 639 2/B
rus
mai
ISO 639 3
rus
mai
ISO 639 6
rus
mai
Glottocode
russ1263
mait1250
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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