Countries
Indonesia
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
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
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
matur nuwun
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
piye kabare?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
wengi sing apik
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Not Available
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Cirebon
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Arekan
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million
  
19
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
basa Jawa
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
  
Russki
  
French Name
javanais
  
russe
  
German Name
Javanisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Russians
  
Origin
450 AD
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Javanese
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
jv
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jav
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
jav
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
jav
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
java1253
  
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