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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Pakistan

Second Language

Afganistan
Pakistan

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia, Oceania

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
India

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan

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.
  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Arabic and Hindi Languages

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Ghaznavid Persian Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3352
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1010
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2140
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
خوش آمديد

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
آپ کا شکریہ

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
گڈ نائٹ

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
سلام علیکم

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
گڈ آفٹر نون

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
گڈ مارننگ

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
براہ مہربانی

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
معاف کرنا

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
الوداع

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
مجھے تم سے محبت

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
معاف کیجئے گا

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Dakhini

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
India

How Many People Speak

30,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Hyderabadi Urdu

Where They Speak

Olonets
India

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Rekhta

Where They Speak

Novgorod
South Asia

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

133
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million104.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million61.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million43.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
اُردُو

Alternative Names

Russki
Bihari

French Name

russe
ourdou

German Name

Russisch
Urdu

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈʊrd̪u]

Ethnicity

Russians
Urdu-speaking people

History

Origin

1000 AD
12th Century CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Eastern
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Modern Standard Urdu

Language Position

720
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Signed Urdu

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
ur

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
urd

ISO 639 2/B

rus
urd

ISO 639 3

rus
urd

ISO 639 6

rus
urd

Glottocode

russ1263
urdu1245

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
59-AAF-q

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional

Russian and Urdu Alphabets

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

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

Russian and Urdu Speaking population

Russian and Urdu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Urdu languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Urdu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 %. 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 Urdu on Russian vs Urdu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Urdu Language Codes

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