Countries
Nigeria
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Nigeria
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
sannu
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
gode ku
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
yaya dai
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
mai kyau dare
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
barka da yamma
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Don Allah
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
yi hakuri
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
sai anjima
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Ina son ku
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
gafara dai
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Gaananci
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Daragaram
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million
  
28
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
35.00 million
  
27
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
Russki
  
French Name
haoussa
  
russe
  
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Russians
  
Origin
14
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Chadic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Hausa
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ha
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hau
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
hau
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
hau
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
haus1257
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Hausa 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 Hausa and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hausa and Russian language. Hausa word for "Hello" is sannu or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Hausa Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hausa vs Russian Difficulty
The Hausa vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hausa 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 Hausa and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hausa and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hausa is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.