Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Czech Republic, European Union
  
National Language
Russia
  
Czech Republic
  
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, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Institute of the Czech Language
  
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 Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
ahoj
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
děkuji
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Jak se máš?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
dobrou noc
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
dobré odpoledne
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
dobré ráno
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
prosím
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
litovat
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
sbohem
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Miluji tě
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
promiňte
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Chod
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Chodsko, Bohemia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Lach
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Moravian
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
11.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
11.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
čeština / český jazyk
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Bohemian, Cestina
  
French Name
russe
  
tchèque
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Tschechisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Czechs
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Standard Czech
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Czech Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
cs
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
ces
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
cze
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
ces
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
czec1258
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
53-AAA-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic