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Russian vs French


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Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
32   
3
4   
11

National Language
France   
Russia   

Second Language
Africa, Canada   
Afganistan   

Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam   
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan   

Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française   
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences   

Interesting Facts
  • French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
  • French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
  • 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
Italian Language   
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages   

Derived From
Latin   
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26   
8
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
10   
7

How Many Consonants
20   
10
21   
11

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
bonjour   
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   

Thank You
Merci   
спасибо(spasibo)   

How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?   
Как дела? (Kak dela?)   

Good Night
bonne Nuit   
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)   

Good Evening
bonsoir   
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)   

Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi   
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')   

Good Morning
Bonjour   
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)   

Please
S'il vous plaît   
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)   

Sorry
désolé   
Извините(Izvinite)   

Bye
au revoir   
до свидания(do svidaniya)   

I Love You
Je t'aime   
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)   

Excuse Me
Excuse Moi   
извините(izvinite)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Quebec French   
Doukhobor Russian   

Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada   
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   

How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00   
15
30,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
African French   
Olonets   

Where They Speak
Africa   
Olonets   

Dialect 3
Swiss French   
Novgorod   

Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland   
Novgorod   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
25   
21
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
163.00 million   
11
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
1.12 %   
17
2.33 %   
9

Native Speakers
76.00 million   
13
166.00 million   
8

Second Language Speakers
87.00 million   
11
110.00 million   
7

Native Name
français   
Русский   

Alternative Names
Français   
Russki   

French Name
français   
russe   

German Name
Französisch   
Russisch   

Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]   
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
Russians   

History

Origin
9th Century   
1000 AD   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   

Subgroup
Romance   
Slavic   

Branch
Not Available   
Eastern   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French   
Old East Slavic   

Standard Forms
Standard French   
Standard Russian   

Language Position
13   
12
7   
7

Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
fr   
ru   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fra   
rus   

ISO 639 2/B
fre   
rus   

ISO 639 3
fra   
rus   

ISO 639 6
fras   
Not Available   

Glottocode
stan1290   
russ1263   

Linguasphere
51-AAA-i   
53-AAA-ea   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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French and Russian Language History

Comparison of French vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of French and Russian language. History of French language states that this language originated in 9th Century 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 French and Russian Language History.

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

French vs Russian Difficulty

The French vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of French 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 French and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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