Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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
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Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Русский
Alternative Names
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Russki
French Name
chinois
russe
German Name
Chinesisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
sini1245
russ1263
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic
Chinese 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 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.
Chinese vs Russian Difficulty
The Chinese vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.