Countries
Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Burkina Faso
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Not Available
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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Dagbani Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2116
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Kia ora
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Laafi bala
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Laafi beme ?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Ne y yungo
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
ne y zabre
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Kia ora
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Ne y yibeogo
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
gafare
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
gafare
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Wend na kon-d nindaare
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Y gafare
Dialects
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Ouapadoupou
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Saremde
Where They Speak
Olonets
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Taolende
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
138
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.11 %
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million7.60 million
0.13
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 millionNA
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
Mosse
Alternative Names
Russki
Not Available
French Name
russe
moré
German Name
Russisch
Mossi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Mossi
History
Origin
1000 AD
Not available
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Western Sudanic
Branch
Eastern
Gur (Voltaic)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Mossi
Language Position
7NA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ru
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
mos
ISO 639 2/B
rus
mos
ISO 639 3
rus
mos
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
moss1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available