Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Turkey
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
- 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
Azerbaijani Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Merhaba
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
günaydın
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
lütfen
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
üzgünüm
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Hoşçakal
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Olonets
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
Türkçe
Русский
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Russki
German Name
Türkisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Russians
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Eastern
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1301
russ1263
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Turkish 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 Turkish and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Russian language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs Russian Difficulty
The Turkish vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish 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 Turkish and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.