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Russian vs Czech


Countries

Countries
Czech Republic, European Union  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Czech Republic  
Russia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

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

Regulated By
Institute of the Czech Language  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  

Interesting Facts
  • The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
  • In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
  • 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
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
42  
22
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
32  
21
10  
7

How Many Consonants
32  
22
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
ahoj  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
děkuji  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
Jak se máš?  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
dobrou noc  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
dobrý večer  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
dobré odpoledne  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
dobré ráno  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
prosím  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
litovat  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
sbohem  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

I Love You
Miluji tě  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
promiňte  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chod  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Chodsko, Bohemia  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Lach  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia  
Olonets  

Dialect 3
Moravian  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia  
Novgorod  

How Many People Speak
108,000.00  
27
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
11.00 million  
99+
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
0.15 %  
99+
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
11.00 million  
99+
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
čeština / český jazyk  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Bohemian, Cestina  
Russki  

French Name
tchèque  
russe  

German Name
Tschechisch  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
Czechs  
Russians  

History

Origin
9th Century  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Slavic  

Branch
Western  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Czech, Old Czech  
Old East Slavic  

Standard Forms
Standard Czech  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
73  
99+
7  
7

Signed Forms
Czech Sign Language  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
cs  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ces  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
cze  
rus  

ISO 639 3
ces  
rus  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
czec1258  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-da  
53-AAA-ea  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Czech and Russian Language History

Comparison of Czech vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Czech and Russian language. History of Czech language states that this language originated in 9th Century 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 Czech and Russian Language History.

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

Czech vs Russian Difficulty

The Czech vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Czech 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 Czech and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Czech and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Czech is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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