Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Bhutan
  
National Language
Russia
  
Bhutan
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
India
  
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
  
India
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Dzongkha Development Commission
  
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.
  
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Sikkimese Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Tibetan Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Kuzoozangpo La
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Kaadinchhey La
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
lek shom ay zim
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Not Available
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Not Available
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Tsip maza
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Log Jay Gay
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Nga cheu lu ga
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Tsip maza
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Laya
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Bhutan
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Lunana
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Bhutan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Adap
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Bhutan
  
Total No. Of Dialects
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
0.64 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
0.17 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
0.47 million
  
37
Native Name
Русский
  
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
  
French Name
russe
  
dzongkha
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Dzongkha
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Ngalop people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Dzongkha
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
dz
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
dzo
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
dzo
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
dzo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
nucl1307
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available