Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Russia
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Philippines
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
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.
  
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Hiligaynon Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Island of Cebu
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cebuano-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Hoy
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Kumusta man ka?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Maayong Hapon
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Maayong Buntag
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Palihug
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Ikasubo ko
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Babay
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Ekskyus mi
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Boholano
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Bohol
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Southern Kana
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
southern Leyte
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
North Kana
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
northern part of Leyte
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
14.50 million
  
19
Native Name
Русский
  
Visayan
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
French Name
russe
  
cebuano
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Cebuano
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Cebuano people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
16th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Standard Cebuano
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
cebu1242
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available