Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
44
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Czech Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3346
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1015
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2138
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
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)
Ahoj
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Dobré ráno
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Prosím
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Pardón!
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Dovidenia
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
30,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Olonets
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
134
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million5.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Russki
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
russe
slovaque
German Name
Russisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Russians
Slovaks
Origin
1000 AD
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Slovak
Language Position
727
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
slk
ISO 639 2/B
rus
slo
ISO 639 3
rus
slk
ISO 639 6
rus
slk
Glottocode
russ1263
slov1269
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic