Countries
Philippines
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Philippines
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Philippines
  
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
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
- 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
Hiligaynon Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Island of Cebu
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hoy
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Salamat
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Maayong Gabii
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Palihug
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Ikasubo ko
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Babay
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Ekskyus mi
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Boholano
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Bohol
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Southern Kana
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
southern Leyte
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
North Kana
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
Not Available
  
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
14.50 million
  
19
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Visayan
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
Russki
  
French Name
cebuano
  
russe
  
German Name
Cebuano
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Cebuano people
  
Russians
  
Origin
16th century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian 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
Standard Cebuano
  
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
ceb
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
ceb
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
ceb
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cebu1242
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic