Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Henda ho
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Boge Setak’
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
দয়া করে
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
দুঃখিত
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Hariau
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Mahali
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
India
How Many People Speak
30,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Not present
Where They Speak
Olonets
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How Many People Speak
154,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Not present
Where They Speak
Novgorod
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How Many People Speak
154,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
131
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Russki
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
russe
santal
German Name
Russisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Russians
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
1000 AD
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Eastern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Santali
Language Position
741
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
sat
ISO 639 2/B
rus
sat
ISO 639 3
rus
sat
ISO 639 6
rus
sat
Glottocode
russ1263
sant1410
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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