Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
National Language
Russia
  
East Asia, European Union
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Akademio de Esperanto
  
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 most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Dankon
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Bonan nokton
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Bonan vesperon
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Bonan posttagmezon
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Bonan matenon
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Mi petas
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Ĝis poste
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Mi amas vin
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Pardonu!
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Not present
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Not present
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
2.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
0.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Русский
  
Esperanto
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
French Name
russe
  
espéranto
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Esperanto
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[espeˈranto]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1887
  
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
  
Proto-Esperanto
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Esperanto
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Signuno
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
eo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
epo
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
epo
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
epo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
espe1235
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
51-AAB-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Constructed
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative