Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Russia
  
Jammu and Kashmir, India
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dogri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Ke aal aee
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
dhanwaad
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
kiyaan oo ji
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
shub ratri
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
shub ratri
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
su prabat
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
kripya
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
changa ji pher
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
gustakhi maaf
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Jaunsari
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Himachal Pradesh, India
  
How Many People Speak
100,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Kullu
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Hinduri
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
4.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
4.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
डोगरी
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
  
French Name
russe
  
dogri
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Dogri
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Dogras
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1971
  
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
  
Dogri
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
doi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
indo1311
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available