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
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 in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Olonets
Where They Speak
Sudan
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Русский
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Russki
German Name
Arabisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Branch
North Arabic
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
russ1263
Linguasphere
12-AAC
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
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.
