Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Nigeria
National Language
Russia
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Afganistan
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
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Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
sannu
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
gode ku
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
yaya dai
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
barka da rana
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
mai kyau safe
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Don Allah
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
yi hakuri
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
sai anjima
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Ghana
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Olonets
Niger
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Niger
Native Name
Русский
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Russki
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
russe
haoussa
German Name
Russisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
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Ethnicity
Russians
Hausa–Fulani people
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Branch
Eastern
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Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Hausa
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
russ1263
haus1257
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
19-HAA-b
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Russian and Hausa 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 Hausa greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Hausa language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Hausa word for "Thank You" is gode ku. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Hausa Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Hausa Difficulty
The Russian vs Hausa difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Hausa 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 Hausa are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Hausa, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Hausa time required is 44 weeks.