Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Haiti
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Haiti
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Central America, North America
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Cuba
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
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.
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
French Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
107
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Bonjou
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Mèsi
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Kijan ou yé?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Bon nwit
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Bonswa
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Bon apre-midi
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Bon apre-midi
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Souple
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Dezole
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Babay
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Mwen renmen w
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Eskize m
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Northern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Cap-Haitien
How Many People Speak
30,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Central Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Olonets
Port-au-Prince
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Southern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Cayes
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0012,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
133
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million9.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
2.33 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million9.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
Kreyòl ayisyen
Alternative Names
Russki
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
French Name
russe
haïtien; créole haïtien
German Name
Russisch
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[kɣejɔl]
Ethnicity
Russians
Haitians
Origin
1000 AD
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Haitian Creole
Language Position
799
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Langue des Signes Haïtienne (LSH)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
ht
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
hat
ISO 639 2/B
rus
hat
ISO 639 3
rus
hat
ISO 639 6
rus
hat
Glottocode
russ1263
hait1244
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
51-AAC-cb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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