Countries
Philippines
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Philippines
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Philippines
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
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
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
  
- 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
Tagalog Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Spanish Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Filipino-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kumusta
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Salamat
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Kumusta
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
magandang gabi
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Magandang gabi
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Magandang umaga
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Mangyaring
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Paalam
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Mahal kita
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
patawarin ninyo ako
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Bikol
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiligaynon
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
8,200,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Waray
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
2,600,000.00
  
13
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
90.00 million
  
17
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
45.00 million
  
23
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million
  
13
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
filipino
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Pilipino
  
Russki
  
French Name
filipino; pilipino
  
russe
  
German Name
Pilipino
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Russians
  
Origin
16th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Filipino
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No Data Available
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fil
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
fil
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
fil
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fili1244
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No Data Available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Filipino 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 Filipino and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Filipino and Russian language. Filipino word for "Hello" is Kumusta or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Filipino Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Filipino vs Russian Difficulty
The Filipino vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Filipino 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 Filipino and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Filipino and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Filipino is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.