Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
43
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1015
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2141
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
30,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Mappila
Where They Speak
Olonets
India
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Novgorod
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
133
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Russki
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
russe
malayalam
German Name
Russisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Russians
Malayali
Origin
1000 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Malayalam
Language Position
729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
mal
ISO 639 2/B
rus
mal
ISO 639 3
rus
mal
ISO 639 6
rus
mal
Glottocode
russ1263
mala1464
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic