Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
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
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Olonets
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Russki
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
russe
slovaque
German Name
Russisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Slovaks
Origin
1000 AD
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Slovak
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
slov1269
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-db
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic
Russian and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Slovak language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Slovak Difficulty
The Russian vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Slovak 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 Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.