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Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  
Myanmar  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
1  
14

National Language
Russia  
Myanmar  

Second Language
Afganistan  
Bangladesh, Burma  

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  
Mon  

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  
Myanmar Language Commission  

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.
  
  • The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
  • It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  

Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  
Thai Language  

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  
Pali Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
12  
9

How Many Consonants
21  
11
33  
23

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Tangut  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)  

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)  

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)  

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)  

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)  

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)  

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)  

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)  

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)  

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)  

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)  

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian  
Arakanese  

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
2,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Olonets  
Tavoyan  

Where They Speak
Olonets  
Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
440,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Novgorod  
Intha  

Where They Speak
Novgorod  
Burma  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
90,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million  
6
43.00 million  
30

Speaking Population
2.33 %  
9
0.50 %  
31

Native Speakers
166.00 million  
8
33.00 million  
28

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million  
7
10.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Русский  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)  

Alternative Names
Russki  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa  

French Name
russe  
birman  

German Name
Russisch  
Birmanisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  
[bəmɛ̀]  

Ethnicity
Russians  
Bamar people  

History

Origin
1000 AD  
1113 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Eastern  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  

Standard Forms
Standard Russian  
Modern Burmese  

Language Position
7  
7
43  
40

Signed Forms
Signed Russian  
Burmese sign language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ru  
my  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus  
mya  

ISO 639 2/B
rus  
bur  

ISO 639 3
rus  
mya  

ISO 639 6
rus  
mya  

Glottocode
russ1263  
sout3159  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Russian and Burmese Language History

Comparison of Russian vs Burmese language history gives us differences between origin of Russian and Burmese language. History of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD whereas history of Burmese language states that this language originated in 1113 AD. 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 Burmese Language History.

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

Russian vs Burmese Difficulty

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

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