Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Ghana
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
- 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
Not Available
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
ete-sen
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
meda ase
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
maadwo
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
maadwo
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
maaha
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
maakye
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
wae
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Kafra
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Me doכ wo
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Asante
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Ghana
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Olonets
Where They Speak
Ghana
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Ghana
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Alternative Names
Not Available
Russki
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Russians
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Akan
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
akan1251
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Akan 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 Akan and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Akan and Russian language. Akan word for "Hello" is ete-sen or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Akan Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Akan vs Russian Difficulty
The Akan vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Akan 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 Akan and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Akan and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Akan is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.