Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India
National Language
Russia
India
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Old German Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
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Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Not present
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Not present
Where They Speak
Olonets
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Not present
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Russki
Not Available
French Name
russe
sanskrit
German Name
Russisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Russians
Not Available
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Sanskrit
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
sans1269
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic
Russian and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Sanskrit language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Sanskrit word for "Thank You" is धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Sanskrit Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Sanskrit Difficulty
The Russian vs Sanskrit difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Sanskrit, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Sanskrit time required is 20 weeks.