Countries
Indonesia
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
- 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
Malay language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Russki
  
French Name
indonésien
  
russe
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Russians
  
Origin
7th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic