Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Russia
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
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.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
ND
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
ND
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
ND
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
ND
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
ND
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
ND
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
russe
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating