Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
Russia
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Afganistan
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
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
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
سلام
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
متشکرم
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
صبح به خیر
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
لطفا
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
متاسف
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Iran, Iraq
Dialect 2
Olonets
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Afganistan
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Native Name
Русский
فارسی
Alternative Names
Russki
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
German Name
Russisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Russians
Persian people
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Persian
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
russ1263
fars1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic
Russian and Persian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Russian and Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Persian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Persian Difficulty
The Russian vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Persian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Russian and Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.