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 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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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)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Not present
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
-
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
-
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
-
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
130
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
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