Countries
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
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
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  
- 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
Turkish
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Osmanly language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Salam
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
necəsən
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
yaxşı gecə
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Axşamınız xeyir
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Günortanız Xeyir
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Sabahınız xeyir
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
lütfən
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
üzr
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
xudafiz
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Mən səni sevirəm
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Bağışlayın
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Derbent
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Russia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Gazakh
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Baku
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
26.00 million
  
39
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Russki
  
French Name
azéri
  
russe
  
German Name
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Azerbaijani
  
Russians
  
Origin
16th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Azerbaijani
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
az
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aze
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
aze
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
aze
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
azer1255
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Azerbaijani 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 Azerbaijani and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Azerbaijani and Russian language. Azerbaijani word for "Hello" is Salam or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Azerbaijani Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Azerbaijani vs Russian Difficulty
The Azerbaijani vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Azerbaijani 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 Azerbaijani and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Azerbaijani and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Azerbaijani is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.