Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
National Language
Russia
  
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
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
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
zoo hmo
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
zoo tav su
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
thov
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Kuv hlub koj
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
zam txim rau kuv
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Hmong Njua
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Laos
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Hmong Daw
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
21
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Hmong Do
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
4.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
3.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Hmong
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Mong
  
French Name
russe
  
hmong
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Miao-Sprachen
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Hmong people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
19
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Hmong
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
hmv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
firs1234
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available