Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Russia
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Philippines
  
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 spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
  
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.
  
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Tagalog Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Spanish Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Filipino-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Kumusta
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Kumusta
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
magandang gabi
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Magandang gabi
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Magandang hapon
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Magandang umaga
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Mangyaring
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
pinagsisisihan
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Paalam
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Mahal kita
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
patawarin ninyo ako
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Bikol
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Hiligaynon
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
8,200,000.00
  
11
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Waray
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,600,000.00
  
13
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
90.00 million
  
17
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
45.00 million
  
23
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
45.00 million
  
13
Native Name
Русский
  
filipino
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Pilipino
  
French Name
russe
  
filipino; pilipino
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Pilipino
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Filipino
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
No Data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
fil
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
fil
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
fil
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
fili1244
  
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