Countries
Burkina Faso
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
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
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
  
- 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
Dagbani Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Mossi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kia ora
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Laafi bala
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Ne y yungo
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
ne y zabre
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
gafare
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
gafare
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Y gafare
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Saremde
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Taolende
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
7.60 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Mosse
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
moré
  
russe
  
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Mossi
  
Russians
  
Origin
Not available
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Mossi
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data Available
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mos
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
mos
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
mos
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
moss1236
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Mossi 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 Mossi and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mossi and Russian language. Mossi word for "Hello" is Kia ora or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Mossi Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mossi vs Russian Difficulty
The Mossi vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mossi 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 Mossi and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mossi and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mossi is 30 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.