Countries
Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Ethiopia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Somali Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3334
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1010
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeksNA
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
akkam
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Maaloo
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
naa dhiisi
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Borana
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
30,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Olonets
Orma
Where They Speak
Olonets
Kenya
How Many People Speak
NA66,000.00
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Wata
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Kenya
How Many People Speak
NA13,000.00
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1317
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
2.33 %0.36 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million24.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 millionNA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Русский
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Russki
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
russe
galla
German Name
Russisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Oromos
History
Origin
1000 AD
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Cushitic
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
791
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
ru
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
orm
ISO 639 2/B
rus
orm
ISO 639 3
rus
orm
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
nucl1736
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