Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
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 in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
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
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Derbent
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Russia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Olonets
Azerbaijan
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Azerbaijan
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
Alternative Names
Russki
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
German Name
Russisch
Aserbeidschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
Ethnicity
Russians
Azerbaijani
Origin
1000 AD
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Turkic Family
Branch
Eastern
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Azerbaijani
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
azer1255
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
44-AAB-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
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.