Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
National Language
Russia
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
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.
  
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Romanian
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Përshëndetje
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Ju faleminderit
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Si jeni?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
natën e mirë
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
mirëmbrëma
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
mirëdita
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
mirëmengjes
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Ju lutem
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Me fal
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
mirupafshim
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
unë e dua ju
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Më falni
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Gheg Albanian
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Tosk Albanian
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
20
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Arbëresh
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
7.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
3.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
3.60 million
  
31
Native Name
Русский
  
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Not Available
  
French Name
russe
  
albanais
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Albanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ʃcip]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Albanians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1462 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old Albanian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Standard Albanian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
sq
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
sqi
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
alb
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
sqi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
alba1267
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
55-AAA-aaa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic