1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Russia
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
1.8 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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Armenian
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Latin
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
γεια σας (geia sas)
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
αντίο (antío)
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Cappadocian Greek
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Greece
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Russki
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
russe
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[eliniˈka]
5.5 Ethnicity
Russians
Greeks or Hellenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Greek
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Greek Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic