Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
National Language
Russia
  
Ethiopia
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Somalia
  
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.
  
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Somali Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
akkam
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Galatoomi
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Nagayattii buli
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Akkam waarite
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Attam bulte/bultan
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Maaloo
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
naa dhiisi
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Nagayattii!
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Sin jaaladha
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Borana
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Orma
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Wata
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Afaan Oromoo
  
French Name
russe
  
galla
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Galla-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Oromos
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
16
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
om
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
orm
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
orm
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
orm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
nucl1736
  
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 Oromo Speaking population
Russian and Oromo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Oromo languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Oromo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 %. 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 Oromo on Russian vs Oromo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and Oromo Language Codes
Russian and Oromo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Oromo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.