Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Russia
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
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
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
goeie more
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
jammer
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
Русский
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
russe
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic