Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3321
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2119
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Bwakeye
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Urakoze
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Mwaramutse
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Ndasubiza
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
N’agasaga
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
30,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Ha
Where They Speak
Olonets
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Shubi
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
136
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million8.80 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Russki
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
russe
rundi
German Name
Russisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Russians
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
1000 AD
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Eastern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Kirundi
Language Position
786
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
ru
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
run
ISO 639 2/B
rus
run
ISO 639 3
rus
run
ISO 639 6
rus
run
Glottocode
russ1263
rund1242
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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