Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2129
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Silaw
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Sipas
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Bayanit bash
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Bibûre
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
30,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Olonets
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
133
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Russki
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
russe
kurde
German Name
Russisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Russians
Kurds
Origin
1000 AD
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Eastern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Kurdish
Language Position
714
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ru
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
kur
ISO 639 2/B
rus
kur
ISO 639 3
rus
kur
ISO 639 6
rus
kur
Glottocode
russ1263
kurd1259
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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