Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
India, No official status
  
National Language
Russia
  
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
  
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Maithili and Magahi
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bhojpuri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Caribbean Hindustani
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Fiji Hindi
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Tharu Bhojpuri
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
India
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
40.00 million
  
24
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
  
French Name
russe
  
bhojpuri
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Bhojpuri
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
19th Century
  
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
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Bhojpuri
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
bho
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
bho
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
bho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
bhoj1246
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
59-AAF-sa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available