Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
46
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Afganistan
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3331
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
107
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
alo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
multumesc
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
ce mai faci?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
noapte Buna
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
buna Ziua
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
bună Dimineața
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Vă Rog
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
scuze
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
La revedere
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
30,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Croatia
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1310
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million24.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
Română
Alternative Names
Russki
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
russe
roumain; moldave
German Name
Russisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Russians
Romanians
Origin
1000 AD
1521
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Romanian
Language Position
736
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
ron
ISO 639 2/B
rus
rum
ISO 639 3
rus
ron
ISO 639 6
rus
ron
Glottocode
russ1263
roma1327
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic