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Russian and German


Countries
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  
Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
4  
11
National Language
Germany  
Russia  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Afganistan  
Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  
Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  
Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  
Alphabets
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Alphabets
26  
8
33  
15
Phonology
  
  
How Many Vowels
10  
7
10  
7
How Many Consonants
9  
1
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
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11
Greetings
Hello
hallo  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  
Thank You
Danke  
спасибо(spasibo)  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  
Good Night
gute Nacht  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  
Good Evening
guten Abend  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  
Good Morning
guten Morgen  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  
Please
bitte  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  
Sorry
Verzeihung  
Извините(Izvinite)  
Bye
Tschüs  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
извините(izvinite)  
Dialects
Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Doukhobor Russian  
Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
30,000.00  
99+
Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Olonets  
Where They Speak
Germany  
Olonets  
How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  
Dialect 3
Texas German  
Novgorod  
Where They Speak
Texas  
Novgorod  
How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
Not Available  
Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
13  
13
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
276.00 million  
6
Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
2.33 %  
9
Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
166.00 million  
8
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
110.00 million  
7
Native Name
Deutsch  
Русский  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Russki  
French Name
allemand  
russe  
German Name
Deutsch  
Russisch  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  
Ethnicity
Germans  
Russians  
History
Origin
6th Century AD  
1000 AD  
Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  
Subgroup
Germanic  
Slavic  
Branch
Western  
Eastern  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms  
Old East Slavic  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Standard Russian  
Language Position
9  
9
7  
7
Signed Forms
Signed German  
Signed Russian  
Scope
Individual  
Individual  
Code
ISO 639 1
de  
ru  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu  
rus  
ISO 639 2/B
ger  
rus  
ISO 639 3
deu  
rus  
ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
russ1263  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
53-AAA-ea  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living  
Living  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  
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All German and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Russian dialects. Various dialects of German and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Russian Speaking population

German and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Russian on German vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Russian Language Codes

German and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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