Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
National Language
Russia
  
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
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.
  
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
ciao
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
grazie
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Come stai?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
buonanotte
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
buonasera
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
buon pomeriggio
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
buongiorno
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Per Favore
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
scusate
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
arrivederci
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Ti amo
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Scusami
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Romanesco
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Lazio
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
21
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Central Italian
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Tuscan
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
78.00 million
  
21
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
64.00 million
  
18
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
14.00 million
  
20
Native Name
Русский
  
Italiano
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Italiano
  
French Name
russe
  
italien
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Italienisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[itaˈljaːno]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Italians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
960 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Romance
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Italian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
it
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
ita
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
ita
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
ita
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
itas
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
ital1282
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
51-AAA-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic