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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara

Total No. Of Countries

446
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Spain

Second Language

Afganistan
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española

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.
  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
French Language

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3327
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2122
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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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
hola

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
Gracias

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Cómo estás?

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Buenas Noches

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Bonne soirée

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Buenas Tardes

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Buenos Días

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Por Favor

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
triste

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
adiós

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Te Quiero

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Discúlpeme

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Mexican Spanish

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Mexico

How Many People Speak

30,000.00105,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Cuban Spanish

Where They Speak

Olonets
Cuba

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0011,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Puerto Rican Spanish

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Puerto Rico

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.003,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1321
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million489.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %6.15 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million410.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million89.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
Español

Alternative Names

Russki
Castellano, Castilian, Español

French Name

russe
espagnol; castillan

German Name

Russisch
Spanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]

Ethnicity

Russians
Spanish people

History

Origin

1000 AD
210 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Romance

Branch

Eastern
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Old Spanish and Spanish

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Pluricentric Standard Spanish

Language Position

72
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Signed Spanish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
es

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
spa

ISO 639 2/B

rus
spa

ISO 639 3

rus
spa

ISO 639 6

rus
spa

Glottocode

russ1263
stan1288

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
51-AAA-b

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Russian and Spanish Alphabets

Russian and Spanish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Spanish. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Spanish Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Russian and Spanish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Spanish 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 Spanish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Spanish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Russian and Spanish Speaking population

Russian and Spanish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Spanish languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Spanish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Spanish language is 6.15 %. 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 Spanish on Russian vs Spanish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Spanish Language Codes

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