Countries
United States of America
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
United States of America
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
North America
  
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
- Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
- Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.
  
- 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
Apache Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Navajo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Yá'át'ééh
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Ahéhee'
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
T'aa shoodi
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Not available
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Hágoónee’
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Shoohá
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Navajo1
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Arizona
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Navajo2
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
New Mexico
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Navajo3
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Utah
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Navaho
  
Russki
  
French Name
navaho
  
russe
  
German Name
Navajo-Sprache
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Navajo people
  
Russians
  
Origin
1500 CE
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Athapascan
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Navajo
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nv
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nav
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
nav
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
nav
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nava1243
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic