Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India, Pakistan
National Language
Russia
Pakistan
Second Language
Afganistan
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
India
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
خوش آمديد
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
گڈ مارننگ
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
معاف کرنا
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
الوداع
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
India
Dialect 2
Olonets
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Olonets
India
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Novgorod
South Asia
Native Name
Русский
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Russki
Bihari
German Name
Russisch
Urdu
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Russians
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
1000 AD
12th Century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Standard Urdu
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
russ1263
urdu1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
59-AAF-q
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Russian and Urdu 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 Urdu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Urdu language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Urdu word for "Thank You" is آپ کا شکریہ. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Urdu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Urdu Difficulty
The Russian vs Urdu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Urdu 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 Urdu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Urdu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Urdu time required is 44 weeks.