Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Russia
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
bok
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
molim
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Русский
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
russe
  
croate
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Croats
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic