Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
National Language
Russia
  
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
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.
  
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Old Norse Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Mange tak
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
God nat
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
God aften
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
God eftermiddag
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
God morgen
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Please
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Undskyld!
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Farvel
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Jeg elsker dig
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Undskyld mig
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Scanian
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Sweden
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Jutlandic
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Denmark
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Bornholmsk
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Island of Bornholm
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
5.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
5.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
dansk
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
French Name
russe
  
danois
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Dänisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Danish people or Danes
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
c. 1100 AD
  
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
  
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Rigsdansk
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Signed Danish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
da
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
dan
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
dan
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
dan
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
dani1284
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional