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Russian and Arabic


Countries

Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
23  
4
4  
11

National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen  
Russia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  

Interesting Facts
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
  • 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
Amharic and Hebrew  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
28  
10
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
10  
7

How Many Consonants
28  
18
21  
11

Scripts
Arabic  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
مرحبا  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
شكرا  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
كيف حالك؟  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
تصبح على خير  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
مساء الخير  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
مساء الخير  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
صباح الخير  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
من فضلك  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
آسف  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
وداعا  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

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

Excuse Me
اعذرني  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Maghrebi  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Sudanese  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Sudan  
Olonets  

How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00  
6
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Levantine  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant  
Novgorod  

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00  
3
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
26  
22
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
452.00 million  
4
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
4.43 %  
6
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
206.00 million  
6
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
246.00 million  
2
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic  
Russki  

French Name
arabe  
russe  

German Name
Arabisch  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
Arabs  
Russians  

History

Origin
512 CE  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  

Subgroup
Semitic  
Slavic  

Branch
North Arabic  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old East Slavic  

Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
25  
21
7  
7

Signed Forms
Signed Arabic  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ar  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ara  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
ara  
rus  

ISO 639 3
ara  
rus  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
arab1395  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
12-AAC  
53-AAA-ea  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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

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Arabic and Russian Speaking population

Arabic and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % 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 Arabic and Russian on Arabic vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Russian Language Codes

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

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