Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Russia
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
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
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Institute of the Estonian 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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Tere
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Palun
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
0.95 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
russe
  
estonien
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Estonians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative