Countries
Fiji, India
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
India
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
- 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
Urdu
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Khariboli
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Marwari
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Bundeli
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
4
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million
  
5
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
260.00 million
  
4
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million
  
6
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
हिन्दी
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
Russki
  
French Name
hindi
  
russe
  
German Name
Hindi
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
  
Russians
  
Origin
7th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hi
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hin
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
hin
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
hin
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
hins
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hind1269
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Hindi 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 Hindi and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hindi and Russian language. Hindi word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (Namastē) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Hindi Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hindi vs Russian Difficulty
The Hindi vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hindi 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 Hindi and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hindi and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hindi is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.