Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Russia
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
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
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
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Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
Русский
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
russe
  
birman
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating