Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
India
  
National Language
Russia
  
Bangladesh, India
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
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.
  
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Bengali and Oriya
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Bengali
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
nomoskaar
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
aapuni kene aase?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
subhoraattri
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
subha gadhuli
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
subha abeli
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
suprobhaat
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
anugroha kori
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
moi ḍukkhita
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
biḍai
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
kyoma koribo
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Kamrupi
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Western Assam
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Goalpariya
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Western Assam
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Bhakatiya
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Assam
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
15.30 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
15.00 million
  
40
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
French Name
russe
  
assamais
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Assamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Assamese people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
7th century A.D
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Kamarupa
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Assamese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
as
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
asm
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
asm
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
asm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
assa1263
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
59-AAF-w
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available