Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Norway
  
National Language
Russia
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
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.
  
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
god morgen
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Norsk
  
French Name
russe
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional