Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2125
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Zdravo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Hvala
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Kako si?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Laku noc
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Dobar dan
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Dobro jutro
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
molim vas
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Oprostite
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Zbogom
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Volim te
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
30,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Croatia
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Croatia
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
136
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
2.33 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Russki
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
russe
bosniaque
German Name
Russisch
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Russians
Bosniaks
Origin
1000 AD
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Bosnian
Language Position
724
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
bos
ISO 639 2/B
rus
bos
ISO 639 3
rus
bos
ISO 639 6
rus
boss
Glottocode
russ1263
bosn1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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