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Countries

Countries

Wales
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

Wales
Russia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Argentina, United Kingdom
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Welsh Language Commissioner
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Interesting Facts

  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  • 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

English Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

British Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2933
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

710
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Helô
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Diolch
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Sut ydych chi?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

Nos da
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

Noswaith dda
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

P'nawn da
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

Bore da
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

os gwelwch yn dda
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

Hwyl
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Dw i'n dy garu di
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Esgusodwch fi
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Patagonian Welsh
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Argentina
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

38,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Y Wyndodeg
Olonets

Where They Speak

Gwynedd
Olonets

How Many People Speak

700,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Y Bowyseg
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Powys
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

700,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

813
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.40 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.40 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Русский

Alternative Names

Cymraeg
Russki

French Name

gallois
russe

German Name

Kymrisch
Russisch

Pronunciation

[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Welsh people
Russians

History

Origin

9th Century
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Celtic
Slavic

Branch

Brythonic
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Welsh
Standard Russian

Language Position

317
1 120
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Signed Forms

Welsh Sign Language
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

cy
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

cym
rus

ISO 639 2/B

wel
rus

ISO 639 3

cym
rus

ISO 639 6

cym
rus

Glottocode

wels1247
russ1263

Linguasphere

50-ABA
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Welsh and Russian Alphabets

Welsh and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Welsh and Russian. In Welsh Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Welsh and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Welsh and Russian languages. The Welsh phonology consist Welsh vowels and Welsh consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Welsh greetings vs Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Welsh and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Welsh 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 Welsh and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Welsh and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Welsh are spoken in different Welsh Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Welsh vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Welsh dialects include: Patagonian Welsh, Y Wyndodeg. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Welsh and Russian Speaking population

Welsh and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Welsh and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Welsh and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Welsh language is 0.24 % 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 Welsh and Russian on Welsh vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Welsh and Russian Language Codes

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