Countries
India, No official status
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
India
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
  
- 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
Maithili and Magahi
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Caribbean Hindustani
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Fiji Hindi
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tharu Bhojpuri
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million
  
31
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
40.00 million
  
24
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
  
Russki
  
French Name
bhojpuri
  
russe
  
German Name
Bhojpuri
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Russians
  
Origin
19th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Bhojpuri
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data Available
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bho
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
bho
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
bho
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bhoj1246
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-sa
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic