Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Indonesia
National Language
Russia
Indonesia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
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Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Halo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Sugeng énjing
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
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Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Olonets
Indonesia
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Arekan
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Indonesia
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Russki
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
russe
javanais
German Name
Russisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
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Ethnicity
Russians
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indonesian
Branch
Eastern
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Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Javanese
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
russ1263
java1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Russian and Javanese 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 Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Javanese language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Javanese Difficulty
The Russian vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Javanese 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 Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.