Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Haiti
  
National Language
Russia
  
Haiti
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Central America, North America
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Cuba
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
  
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.
  
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
French Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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HaitianCreole-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Bonjou
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Mèsi
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Kijan ou yé?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Bon nwit
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Bonswa
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Bon apre-midi
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Bon apre-midi
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Souple
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Dezole
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Babay
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Mwen renmen w
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Eskize m
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Northern Haitian Creole
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Cap-Haitien
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Central Haitian Creole
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Port-au-Prince
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Southern Haitian Creole
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Cayes
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
9.60 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
9.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Kreyòl ayisyen
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
  
French Name
russe
  
haïtien; créole haïtien
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[kɣejɔl]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Haitians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Haitian Creole
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
ht
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
hat
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
hat
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
hat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
hait1244
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
51-AAC-cb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available