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Countries

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   

Total No. Of Countries
33   
2
4   
11

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

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

Alphabets
26   
8
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
10   
7

How Many Consonants
21   
11
21   
11

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
7   
6
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks   
3
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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
30,000.00   
99+

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   

Total No. Of Dialects
188   
34
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million   
1
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
5.43 %   
4
2.33 %   
9

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   

History

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   

Language Position
3   
3
7   
7

Signed Forms
Signed English   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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English and Russian Language History

Comparison of English vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of English and Russian language. History of English language states that this language originated in 5th Century AD 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 English and Russian Language History.

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

English vs Russian Difficulty

The English vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of English 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 English and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in English and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn English is 6 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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