Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Russia
Germany
Second Language
Afganistan
North Dakota, United States of America
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
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
hallo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Danke
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
guten Tag
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
guten Morgen
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
bitte
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Verzeihung
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Tschüs
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Olonets
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Olonets
Germany
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Texas German
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Texas
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Russki
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
russe
allemand
German Name
Russisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Russians
Germans
Origin
1000 AD
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
russ1263
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Russian and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and German language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs German Difficulty
The Russian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.