1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
hallo
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
goeie more
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
jammer
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Olonets
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Novgorod
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic