Greek and Russian Speaking countries

Greek and Russian as Minority Language

In Greek and Russian speaking countries you will get the countries which have Greek and Russian as minority language. The language which is spoken by minority of population in the country is called as minority language.

If you want to compare Greek and Russian dialects, then you can go to Greek vs Russian Dialects. Some of the official languages are also considered as minority languages.

Greek and Russian Regulators

Greek and Russian speaking countries provide you Greek and Russian regulators which are the official organizations that regulate them. Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας) regulates Greek language.Russian is regulated by Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Also get to learn, Greek and Russian Language History.

Greek and Russian Continents

Thinking about Greek and Russian continents in which Greek and Russian speaking countries are present. Check out more information on Greek and Russian. Most of the Greek speaking countries lie in Asia, Europe. While Russian speaking countries lie in Asia, Europe. Continentwise, most of the languages belong to Asian Languages and African Languages. It's always fun to know about interesting facts of any language, so lets discuss about unknown facts of Greek and Russian languages:

Greek Interesting Facts:

• Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
• The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Russian Interesting Facts:

• 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.

The Greek language was derived from Latin and is similar to Armenian whereas Greek language is similar to Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages and derived from Proto-Slavic Vocabulary.