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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

Russia
India

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
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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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.
  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Old German Language

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Prakrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3352
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1016
0 32
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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

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks20 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
शुभः सायंकालः

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
शुभ दुपार

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
कृपया (kripayā)

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Not present

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
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How Many People Speak

30,000.00140,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Not present

Where They Speak

Olonets
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How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00140,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Not present

Where They Speak

Novgorod
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How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00140,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

130
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million14.10 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million14.10 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million-
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)

Alternative Names

Russki
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam

French Name

russe
sanskrit

German Name

Russisch
Sanskrit

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]

Ethnicity

Russians
Sanskrit speakers

History

Origin

1000 AD
2000 B.C.

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Eastern
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Vedic Sanskrit

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Sanskrit

Language Position

723
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
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Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
sa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
san

ISO 639 2/B

rus
san

ISO 639 3

rus
san

ISO 639 6

rus
san

Glottocode

russ1263
sans1269

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Ancient

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

Russian and Sanskrit Alphabets

Russian and Sanskrit Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Sanskrit. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Russian and Sanskrit languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Sanskrit are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Russian and Sanskrit Speaking population

Russian and Sanskrit speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Sanskrit languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Sanskrit Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 %. 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 Sanskrit on Russian vs Sanskrit where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Sanskrit Language Codes

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