Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Russia
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Nepal
  
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
  
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.
  
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
pranam
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
maf karai
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
North India
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
Русский
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
russe
  
maithili
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Maithil
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available