Countries
Japan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Japan
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Olonets
Dialect 3
Kansai
Novgorod
Where They Speak
kansai
Novgorod
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Alternative Names
Not Available
Russki
French Name
japonais
russe
German Name
Japanisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Russians
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1643
russ1263
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Japanese 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 Japanese and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Japanese and Russian language. Japanese word for "Hello" is こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Japanese Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Japanese vs Russian Difficulty
The Japanese vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Japanese 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 Japanese and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Japanese and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Japanese is 88 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.