1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Bulgaria, European Union
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Macedonian language
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
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)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Моля (Molja)
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Обичам те (Običam te)
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Bulgaria
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
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 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million7.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Русский
български (bãlgarski)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
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
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Bulgarian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Bulgarian Sign Language
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available