Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
Russia
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Afganistan
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
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
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
سلام
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
متشکرم
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
صبح به خیر
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
لطفا
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
متاسف
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Iran, Iraq
Dialect 2
Olonets
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
فارسی
Alternative Names
Russki
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
German Name
Russisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Russians
Persian people
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Persian
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
fars1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic
Russian and Persian Speaking population
Russian and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Russian vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and Persian Language Codes
Russian and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.