Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
South Africa
National Language
Russia
South Africa
Second Language
Afganistan
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
hallo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Dankie
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
goeie nag
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
goeie more
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
asseblief
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
jammer
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Totsiens
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
-
Dialect 2
Olonets
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Olonets
-
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Namibia
Native Name
Русский
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Russki
Cape Dutch
French Name
russe
afrikaans
German Name
Russisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Russians
Afrikaners
Origin
1000 AD
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Afrikaans
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
russ1263
afri1274
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
52-ACB-ba
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic
Russian and Afrikaans Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Russian and Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Afrikaans language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Russian vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Afrikaans Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Russian and Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.