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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

43
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Afganistan
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

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
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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.
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3332
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

106
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2123
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
سلام

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
متشکرم

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
چطور هستید?

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
شب بخیر

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
صبح به خیر

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
لطفا

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
متاسف

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

30,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Olonets
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1312
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
فارسی

Alternative Names

Russki
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

russe
persan

German Name

Russisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Russians
Persian people

History

Origin

1000 AD
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Eastern
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Persian

Language Position

723
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
fas

ISO 639 2/B

rus
per

ISO 639 3

rus
pes

ISO 639 6

rus
pers

Glottocode

russ1263
fars1254

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

Russian and Persian Alphabets

Russian and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Persian. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Russian and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Persian 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 Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Russian and Persian Speaking population

Russian and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Russian vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Persian Language Codes

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