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Countries

Countries

Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

464
0 46
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National Language

Spain
Russia

Second Language

Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Interesting Facts

  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  • 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.

Similar To

French Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

Latin
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2733
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2221
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

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

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hola
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Gracias
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Cómo estás?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

Buenas Noches
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

Bonne soirée
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

Buenas Tardes
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

Buenos Días
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

Por Favor
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

triste
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

adiós
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Te Quiero
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Discúlpeme
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Mexican Spanish
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Mexico
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

105,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Cuban Spanish
Olonets

Where They Speak

Cuba
Olonets

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Puerto Rican Spanish
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Puerto Rico
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

3,900,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2113
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

489.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

6.15 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

410.00 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

89.50 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Español
Русский

Alternative Names

Castellano, Castilian, Español
Russki

French Name

espagnol; castillan
russe

German Name

Spanisch
Russisch

Pronunciation

[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Spanish people
Russians

History

Origin

210 BC
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Romance
Slavic

Branch

-
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Spanish and Spanish
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Standard Russian

Language Position

27
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Spanish
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

es
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

spa
rus

ISO 639 2/B

spa
rus

ISO 639 3

spa
rus

ISO 639 6

spa
rus

Glottocode

stan1288
russ1263

Linguasphere

51-AAA-b
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Spanish and Russian Alphabets

Spanish and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Spanish and Russian. In Spanish Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Spanish and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Spanish and Russian languages. The Spanish phonology consist Spanish vowels and Spanish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Spanish greetings vs Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Spanish and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Spanish and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Spanish and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Spanish and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Spanish are spoken in different Spanish Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Spanish vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Spanish dialects include: Mexican Spanish, Cuban Spanish. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Spanish and Russian Speaking population

Spanish and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Spanish and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Spanish and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Spanish language is 6.15 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Spanish and Russian on Spanish vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Spanish and Russian Language Codes

Spanish and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Spanish and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.