Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
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 in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
276.00 million
  
6
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
German 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 German and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Russian language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common German Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Russian Difficulty
The German vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.