Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Russia
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
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
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Latin
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Please
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Bye
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
English
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
anglais
  
russe
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Russians
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic