Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
  
National Language
Russia
  
India
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
  
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
  
Israel, Mauritius
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
  
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.
  
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Konkani Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Marathi-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
बाय (Bāya)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Maharashtrian Konkani
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Kokan
  
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Varhadi
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Vidarbha
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Khandeshi
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Khandesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,900,000.00
  
15
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
71.00 million
  
25
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
68.00 million
  
16
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
3.00 million
  
32
Native Name
Русский
  
मराठी (marāṭhī)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
  
French Name
russe
  
marathe
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Marathi
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Marathi people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
10th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Maharashtri Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Marathi
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
mr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
mar
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
mar
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
mar
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
mara1378
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
omr
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available