Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Russia
Germany
Second Language
Afganistan
North Dakota, United States of America
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
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
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German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
hallo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Danke
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
guten Tag
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
guten Morgen
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
bitte
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Verzeihung
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Tschüs
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Olonets
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Olonets
Germany
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Texas German
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Texas
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Russki
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
russe
allemand
German Name
Russisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Russians
Germans
Origin
1000 AD
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
russ1263
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Russian and German Speaking population
Russian and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and German languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and German on Russian vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and German Language Codes
Russian and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.