1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Russia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Not Available
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Farsi 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
Cyrillic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Silaw
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Tu çawa yî?
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Şev xweş
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Evare baş
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Bayanit bash
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Bê zehmet
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Bibûre
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Be xêr çî
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Bê zehmet
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Northern Kurdish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Olonets
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Novgorod
Southern Kurdish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Русский
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
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
Not Available