Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
European Union, Poland
  
National Language
Russia
  
Poland
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
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.
  
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
cześć
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
dziękuję
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Jak się masz?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
dobranoc
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
dobry wieczór
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
dzień dobry
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Dzień dobry
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
proszę
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Przepraszam
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
do widzenia
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
kocham Cię
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
przepraszam
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Masovian
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Poland
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Silesian
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Czech Republic, Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
40.00 million
  
24
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Polski
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Polnisch, Polski
  
French Name
russe
  
polonais
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Polnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Poles
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1270
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Polish
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
pl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
pol
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
pol
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
pol
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
pols
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
poli1260
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
53-AAA-cc
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic