Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
India
  
National Language
Russia
  
India
  
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.
  
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Bengali and Assamese
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Oriya-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Baleswari
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Ganjami
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Kosli
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
33.00 million
  
34
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
  
French Name
russe
  
oriya
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Oriya-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ˈoɽia]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Odias
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
3 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Standard Odia
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
or
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
ori
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
ori
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
ori
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
macr1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available