1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Japan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Pacific
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
1.8 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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Korean Language
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
おはよう (Ohayō)
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Kagawa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million128.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
Russians
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Japonic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Japanese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Japanese
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic