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
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kana
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00
  
28
Dialect 2
Hakata
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Kansai
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
kansai
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million
  
14
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
128.00 million
  
9
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
日本語
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
japonais
  
russe
  
German Name
Japanisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Russians
  
Origin
1185
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Japonic Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
ja
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
jpn
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1643
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
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.