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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

Russia

1.4 Second Language

Afganistan

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

1.6 Minority Language

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

1.7 Regulated By

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

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

1.10 Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
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0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Cyrillic

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

3.2 Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)

3.3 How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)

3.4 Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

3.5 Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

3.6 Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

3.7 Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

3.8 Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

3.9 Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)

3.10 Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)

3.11 I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

3.12 Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

30,000.00
Rank: 46 (Overall)
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1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Olonets

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Olonets

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Novgorod

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Novgorod

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

13
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

276.00 million
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

2.33 %
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

166.00 million
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

110.00 million
Rank: 7 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Русский

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Russki

5.3.4 French Name

russe

5.3.5 German Name

Russisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

5.5 Ethnicity

Russians

6 History

6.1 Origin

1000 AD

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Slavic

6.2.2 Branch

Eastern

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old East Slavic

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Russian

6.3.3 Language Position

7
Rank: 7 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms

Signed Russian

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

ru

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

rus

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

rus

7.3 ISO 639 3

rus

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

russ1263

7.6 Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Russian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Russian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Russian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Russian. Russian phonology gives Russian vowels and Russian consonants. There are 10 vowels and 21 consonants in Russian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Russian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Russian language is given in detail in this section.

All Russian countries

Want to explore all Russian countries? About Russian language serves you with all Russian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Russian as official language are called as Russian countries.

  • Countries that use Russian as their National Language are: Russia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Russian as second language are: Afganistan.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Russian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Russian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Russian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Russian language.Learn Russian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  • Thank you: спасибо(spasibo)
  • Good Morning: Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  • Good Evening: Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  • Good Afternoon: Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

All Russian Language Codes

Get to know all Russian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Russian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.