Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Malawi, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Russia
  
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Zambia
  
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.
  
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Zulu language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chewa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Moni
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Zikomo
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Muli bwanji?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Usiku wabwino
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Madzulo abwino
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Masana abwino
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
M'mawa wabwino
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Chonde
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
pepani
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
anatsanzikana
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Ndimakukondani
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Pepani
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Kasungu
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Malawi, Zambia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Kikamtunda
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Malawi, Zambia
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Kimaravi
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Malawi, Zambia
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
12.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
12.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Nyanja
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
  
French Name
russe
  
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Nyanja-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Chewa people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
15th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Chewa
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
ny
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
nya
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
nya
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
nya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
nyan1308
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
99-AUS-xaa – xag
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available