1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Russia
North Korea, South Korea
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
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)
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
하십시오 (hasibsio)
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
안녕 (annyeong)
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
South Korea
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Novgorod
China, North Korea
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 million77.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million77.00 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
Russki
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
1000 AD
Before 1st century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Koreanic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Korean Sign Language
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