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Russian vs Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
4  
11

National Language
China, Taiwan  
Russia  

Second Language
Republic of Brazil  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  

Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
  • 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
Not Available  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24  
19
10  
7

How Many Consonants
23  
13
21  
11

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
请 (Qǐng)  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mandarin  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00  
1
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Wu  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
China, United States of America  
Olonets  

How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00  
1
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Yue  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  
Novgorod  

How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00  
2
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million  
2
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
873.00 million  
1
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
178.00 million  
3
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Russki  

French Name
chinois  
russe  

German Name
Chinesisch  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
Han  
Russians  

History

Origin
1250 BC  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan 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 Chinese  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
1  
1
7  
7

Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
zh  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
zho  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
chi  
rus  

ISO 639 3
zho  
rus  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sini1245  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
79-AAA  
53-AAA-ea  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Chinese and Russian Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Russian language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Chinese and Russian Language History.

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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 Chinese and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Russian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

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