Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Burma
  
National Language
Russia
  
Burundi, Gambia
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, 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.
  
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Kinyarwanda Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Bwakeye
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Urakoze
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Urakomeye?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Ijoro ryiza
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Mwiriwe
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Mwiriwe
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Mwaramutse
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Ndagusavye
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Not available
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
N’agasaga
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Rwanda-Rundi
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Ha
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Tanzania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Shubi
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Tanzania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
8.80 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
8.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
íkiRǔndi
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Not Available
  
French Name
russe
  
rundi
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Kirundi
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Kirundi
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
rn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
run
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
run
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
run
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
rund1242
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Russian and Kirundi Speaking population
Russian and Kirundi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Kirundi languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Kirundi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Kirundi on Russian vs Kirundi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and Kirundi Language Codes
Russian and Kirundi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Kirundi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.