Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
  
National Language
Russia
  
Moldova, Romania
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Kazakhstan, Russia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
  
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.
  
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
alo
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
multumesc
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
ce mai faci?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
noapte Buna
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
buna Seara
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
buna Ziua
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
bună Dimineața
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Vă Rog
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
scuze
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
La revedere
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Te iubesc
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Scuza-Ma
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Aromanian
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Megleno-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Istro-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
4.00 million
  
30
Native Name
Русский
  
Română
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
  
French Name
russe
  
roumain; moldave
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Rumänisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[roˈmɨnə]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Romanians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1521
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Proto-Romanian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Romanian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Romanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
ro
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
ron
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
rum
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
ron
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
roma1327
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
51-AAD-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic