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
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 in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Mexico
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
Olonets
Where They Speak
Cuba
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
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
Not Available
Russians
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1288
russ1263
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Spanish and Russian 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 Spanish and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Spanish and Russian language. Spanish word for "Hello" is hola or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Spanish Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Spanish vs Russian Difficulty
The Spanish vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Spanish Alphabets and Russian 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 Spanish and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Spanish and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Spanish is 24 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.