1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Lithuania
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
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Poland
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Latvian
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
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Sveiki
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Kaip sekasi?
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Labanakt
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Labas vakaras
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Laba diena
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Labas rytas
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Prašom
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
atsiprašau
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Ate
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Aš myliu tave
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Atsiprašau
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Samogitian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Lithuania
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00500,000.00
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 million3.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million3.00 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
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Lithuanian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Lithuanian 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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic