Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Russia
  
India
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Oceania
  
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
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Русский
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
russe
  
hindi
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic