Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
National Language
Russia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Habari
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Asante
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
tafadhali
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
pole
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
bye
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Olonets
Dar es Salaam
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Kilwa
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
Not Available
Alternative Names
Russki
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
russe
swahili
German Name
Russisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
1000 AD
6th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Swahili
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
swah1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
Russian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Swahili language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Swahili Difficulty
The Russian vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.