Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Nepal
Second Language
Afganistan
Republic of Brazil
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
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3348
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Devanagari
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
👆🏻
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
कृपया
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Nepal
How Many People Speak
30,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Olonets
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Nepal
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
2.33 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Russki
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
russe
népalais
German Name
Russisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Russians
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1000 AD
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Eastern
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Nepali
Language Position
759
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ru
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
nep
ISO 639 2/B
rus
nep
ISO 639 3
rus
npi
ISO 639 6
rus
nep
Glottocode
russ1263
nepa1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative