Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Russia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Afganistan
Republic of Brazil
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
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Where They Speak
Olonets
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Novgorod
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
Русский
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Russki
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
russe
chinois
German Name
Russisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
russ1263
sini1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Russian and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Chinese language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Russian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.