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Arabic vs Russian


Russian vs 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
Arabic.jpg#200   
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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Arabic and Russian Language History

Comparison of Arabic vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Arabic and Russian language. History of Arabic language states that this language originated in 512 CE whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Arabic and Russian Language History.

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Arabic 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 Arabic and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Russian language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Arabic vs Russian Difficulty

The Arabic vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic 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 Arabic and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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