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Russian vs 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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German and Russian Language History

Comparison of German vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of German and Russian language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD 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 German and Russian Language History.

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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.

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