Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Estonia, Gambia
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
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Finnish
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3327
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
109
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2118
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Tere
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
aitäh
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Head ööd
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Tere päevast
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Tere hommikust
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Palun
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Vabandust
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Head aega
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
30,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Tartu
Where They Speak
Olonets
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Novgorod
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
138
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million0.95 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Russki
Eesti keel
French Name
russe
estonien
German Name
Russisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Russians
Estonians
Origin
1000 AD
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Eastern
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Estonian
Language Position
722
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ru
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
est
ISO 639 2/B
rus
est
ISO 639 3
rus
est
ISO 639 6
rus
est
Glottocode
russ1263
esto1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative