1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Madagascar
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Russia
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Not Available
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
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Salama!
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Misaotra
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Manao ahoana!
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Alina tsara
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Manao ahoana e
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Manao ahoana e
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Maraina tsara
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
azafady
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Miala tsiny
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Veloma!
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Tiako ianao.
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Azafady
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Eastern Malagasy
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Merina
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
700
80000000
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 millionNA
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million18.00 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
Malagasy Sign Language
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Russisch
Malagassi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Austronesian 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
standard Malagasy
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
53-AAA-ea
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Object-Subject
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available