1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Malawi, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Russia
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Zambia
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Not Available
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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Zulu 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
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Moni
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Muli bwanji?
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Usiku wabwino
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Madzulo abwino
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Masana abwino
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
M'mawa wabwino
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Chonde
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
pepani
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
anatsanzikana
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ndimakukondani
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Pepani
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Kasungu
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Malawi, Zambia
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 million12.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Russki
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
5.3.4 French Name
russe
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
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
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
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
Not Available
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
99-AUS-xaa – xag
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available