1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Cyrillic
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
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) ▶
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) ▶
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) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
2.33 %
Rank: 9 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million
Rank: 8 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
Rank: 7 (Overall) ▶
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
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