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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden

Total No. Of Countries

44
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Sweden

Second Language

Afganistan
Finland

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Antartica, Europe

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council

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.
  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Norwegian and Danish Language

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3329
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

109
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2118
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)
hej

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
tacka dig

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
hur mår du

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
godnatt

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
god kväll

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
god eftermiddag

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
god morgon

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
vänligen

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
ledsen

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
hej då

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
jag älskar dig

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
ursäkta mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Dialects

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Gabon

How Many People Speak

30,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Dialects

Where They Speak

Olonets
Georgia

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0078,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Dialects

Where They Speak

Novgorod
France

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0096,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1379
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million15.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
Svenska

Alternative Names

Russki
Ruotsi, Svenska

French Name

russe
suédois

German Name

Russisch
Schwedisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]

Ethnicity

Russians
Swedes, Finland Swedes

History

Origin

1000 AD
13th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Germanic

Branch

Eastern
Northern (Scandinavian)

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Old Swedish

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Standard Swedish

Language Position

789
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
sv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
swe

ISO 639 2/B

rus
swe

ISO 639 3

rus
swe

ISO 639 6

rus
swe

Glottocode

russ1263
swed1254

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
52-AAA-ck to -cw

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Russian and Swedish Alphabets

Russian and Swedish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Swedish. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Russian and Swedish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Swedish 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 Swedish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Swedish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Russian and Swedish Speaking population

Russian and Swedish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Swedish languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Swedish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 %. 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 Swedish on Russian vs Swedish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Swedish Language Codes

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