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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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
Olonets
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
Novgorod
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
Русский
Alternative Names
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
Russki
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
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Azerbaijani
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
azer1255
russ1263
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
53-AAA-ea
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.