Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
411
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Turkey
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Merhaba
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Tünaydın
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
günaydın
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
lütfen
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
üzgünüm
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
30,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Olonets
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
139
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
2.33 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Русский
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Russki
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
russe
turc
German Name
Russisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Russians
Turkish
Origin
1000 AD
c. 1350
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Turkic
Branch
Eastern
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
719
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
tur
ISO 639 2/B
rus
tur
ISO 639 3
rus
tur
ISO 639 6
rus
tur
Glottocode
russ1263
nucl1301
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic