Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Russia
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
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
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
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.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Greece
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
russe
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Modern Greek
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
ells
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic