Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Israel
Second Language
Afganistan
Israel
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Poland
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Academy of the Hebrew 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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3322
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
100
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2122
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Israel
How Many People Speak
30,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Olonets
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Olonets
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Israel
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
137
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
2.33 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Русский
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Russki
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
russe
hébreu
German Name
Russisch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Russians
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
1000 AD
1000 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Semitic
Branch
Eastern
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
heb
ISO 639 2/B
rus
heb
ISO 639 3
rus
heb
ISO 639 6
rus
heb
Glottocode
russ1263
hebr1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic