Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Norway
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
109
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
hallo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
takk
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
god natt
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
god morgen
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Vær så snill
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
unnskyld
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
ha det
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
30,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Olonets
Sogn
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
2.33 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
Norsk
Alternative Names
Russki
Norsk
French Name
russe
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Russisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Russians
Norwegians
Origin
1000 AD
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Germanic
Branch
Eastern
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
718
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ru
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
nor
ISO 639 2/B
rus
nor
ISO 639 3
rus
nor
ISO 639 6
rus
nor
Glottocode
russ1263
norw1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional