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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
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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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