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Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
7  
8

National Language
Russia  
Azerbaijan, Gambia  

Second Language
Afganistan  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences  

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.
  
  • Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
  • Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  

Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  
Turkish  

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  
Osmanly language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
32  
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
9  
6

How Many Consonants
21  
11
23  
13

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  
Salam  

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)  
Təşəkkür edirəm  

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  
necəsən  

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  
yaxşı gecə  

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  
Axşamınız xeyir  

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  
Günortanız Xeyir  

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  
Sabahınız xeyir  

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  
lütfən  

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)  
üzr  

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)  
xudafiz  

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  
Mən səni sevirəm  

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)  
Bağışlayın  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian  
Derbent  

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  
Russia  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
37,000,000.00  
20

Dialect 2
Olonets  
Gazakh  

Where They Speak
Olonets  
Azerbaijan  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
37,000,000.00  
18

Dialect 3
Novgorod  
Baku  

Where They Speak
Novgorod  
Azerbaijan  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
37.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
33  
26

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million  
6
26.00 million  
39

Speaking Population
2.33 %  
9
0.34 %  
39

Native Speakers
166.00 million  
8
23.00 million  
34

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million  
7
25.00 million  
27

Native Name
Русский  
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي  

Alternative Names
Russki  
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish  

French Name
russe  
azéri  

German Name
Russisch  
Aserbeidschanisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]  

Ethnicity
Russians  
Azerbaijani  

History

Origin
1000 AD  
16th Century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  
Turkic Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Turkic  

Branch
Eastern  
Southwestern(Oghuz)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Russian  
Azerbaijani  

Language Position
7  
7
38  
35

Signed Forms
Signed Russian  
Signed Azerbaijani  

Scope
Individual  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
ru  
az  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus  
aze  

ISO 639 2/B
rus  
aze  

ISO 639 3
rus  
aze  

ISO 639 6
rus  
aze  

Glottocode
russ1263  
azer1255  

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  
Agglutinative  

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Russian and Azerbaijani Language History

Comparison of Russian vs Azerbaijani language history gives us differences between origin of Russian and Azerbaijani language. History of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD whereas history of Azerbaijani language states that this language originated in 16th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Russian and Azerbaijani Language History.

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Russian and Azerbaijani 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 Azerbaijani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Azerbaijani language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Azerbaijani word for "Thank You" is Təşəkkür edirəm. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Azerbaijani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Russian vs Azerbaijani Difficulty

The Russian vs Azerbaijani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Azerbaijani 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 Azerbaijani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Azerbaijani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Azerbaijani time required is 44 weeks.

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