Countries
Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
433
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Second Language
Afganistan
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
South Africa
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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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.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
67
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks6 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Hello
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Thank you
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
How are you?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Night
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Evening
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Afternoon
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Good Morning
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Please
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Sorry
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Bye
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
I love you
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Excuse Me
Dialects
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
American English
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
United States of America
How Many People Speak
30,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Hiberno-English
Where They Speak
Olonets
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.004,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Welsh English
Where They Speak
Novgorod
United Kingdom
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
13188
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million1,200.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %5.43 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million400.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million400.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
English
Alternative Names
Russki
English
French Name
russe
anglais
German Name
Russisch
Englisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
Ethnicity
Russians
English people
History
Origin
1000 AD
5th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Eastern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard English
Language Position
73
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed English
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ru
en
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
eng
ISO 639 2/B
rus
eng
ISO 639 3
rus
eng
ISO 639 6
rus
engs
Glottocode
russ1263
stan1293
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
52-ABA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic