Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
East Asia, European Union
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Dankon
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Bonan nokton
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Bonan matenon
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Mi petas
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Ĝis poste
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Mi amas vin
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Pardonu!
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Not present
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Novgorod
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
2.20 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.20 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Esperanto
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
Russki
  
French Name
espéranto
  
russe
  
German Name
Esperanto
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Russians
  
Origin
1887
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Esperanto
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signuno
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
eo
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
epo
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
epo
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
epo
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
espe1235
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
51-AAB-da
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Constructed
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic