Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
National Language
Russia
  
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
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.
  
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
szia
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
köszönöm
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Hogy vagy?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Jó Éjszakát
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
jó Estét
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
jó Reggelt
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Kérlek
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
bocsi
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
viszlát
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Szeretlek
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
elnézést
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Csángó
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Bacău County, Rumania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Oberwart
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Austria
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Székely
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Székely Land
  
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
0.07 million
  
38
Native Name
Русский
  
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Magyar
  
French Name
russe
  
hongrois
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Ungarisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Hungarians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1192 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Ugric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old Hungarian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Modern Hungarian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
hu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
hun
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
hun
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
hun
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
hung1274
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
ohu
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic