Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Russia
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
5.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Not Available
  
French Name
russe
  
mongol
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available