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Countries
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Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan 0

Total No. Of Countries
4 11

National Language
Russia 0

Second Language
Afganistan 0

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe 0

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan 0

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 0

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.
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Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages 0

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
33 15

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
10 7

How Many Consonants
21 11

Scripts
Cyrillic 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
0

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) 0

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo) 0

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?) 0

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi) 0

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher) 0

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den') 0

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro) 0

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta) 0

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite) 0

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya) 0

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu) 0

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite) 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian 0

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan 0

How Many People Speak
30,000.00 46

Dialect 2
Olonets 0

Where They Speak
Olonets 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Novgorod 0

Where They Speak
Novgorod 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
13 13

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million 6

Speaking Population
2.33 % 9

Native Speakers
166.00 million 8

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million 7

Native Name
Русский 0

Alternative Names
Russki 0

French Name
russe 0

German Name
Russisch 0

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk] 0

Ethnicity
Russians 0

History
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Origin
1000 AD 0

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family 0

Subgroup
Slavic 0

Branch
Eastern 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
Old East Slavic 0

Standard Forms
Standard Russian 0

Language Position
7 7

Signed Forms
Signed Russian 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
0

ISO 639 1
ru 0

ISO 639 2
0

ISO 639 2/T
rus 0

ISO 639 2/B
rus 0

ISO 639 3
rus 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
russ1263 0

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea 0

Types of Language
0

Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic 0

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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.

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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.

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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.

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