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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Poland

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Poland

Second Language

Afganistan
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine

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
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)

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.
  • Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
  • The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3332
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

109
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2123
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
cześć

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
dziękuję

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Jak się masz?

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
dobranoc

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
dobry wieczór

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
dzień dobry

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Dzień dobry

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
proszę

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
Przepraszam

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
do widzenia

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
kocham Cię

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
przepraszam

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Kashubian

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Poland

How Many People Speak

30,000.00108,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Masovian

Where They Speak

Olonets
Poland

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Silesian

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Czech Republic, Poland

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00510,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1334
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million40.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.61 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million40.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million40.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
Polski

Alternative Names

Russki
Polnisch, Polski

French Name

russe
polonais

German Name

Russisch
Polnisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈpɔlski]

Ethnicity

Russians
Poles

History

Origin

1000 AD
1270

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Slavic

Branch

Eastern
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Old Polish and Middle Polish

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Polish

Language Position

724
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
pl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
pol

ISO 639 2/B

rus
pol

ISO 639 3

rus
pol

ISO 639 6

rus
pols

Glottocode

russ1263
poli1260

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-cc

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Russian and Polish Alphabets

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

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

Russian and Polish Speaking population

Russian and Polish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Polish languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Polish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Polish language is 0.61 %. 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 Polish on Russian vs Polish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Polish Language Codes

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