Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Burkina Faso
  
National Language
Russia
  
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
  
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
  
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.
  
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Dagbani Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mossi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Kia ora
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Laafi bala
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Laafi beme ?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Ne y yungo
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
ne y zabre
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Kia ora
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Ne y yibeogo
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
gafare
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
gafare
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Wend na kon-d nindaare
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Y gafare
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Ouapadoupou
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Burkina Faso
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Saremde
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Burkina Faso
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Taolende
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Burkina Faso
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
7.60 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
7.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Mosse
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Not Available
  
French Name
russe
  
moré
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Mossi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Mossi
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
Not available
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Gur (Voltaic)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Mossi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
mos
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
mos
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
mos
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
moss1236
  
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
  
Russian and Mossi Speaking population
Russian and Mossi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Mossi languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Mossi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Mossi language is 0.11 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Mossi on Russian vs Mossi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and Mossi Language Codes
Russian and Mossi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Mossi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.