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.
  
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Old German Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Prakrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
शुभः सायंकालः
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
शुभ दुपार
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
कृपया (kripayā)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
14.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
14.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Not Available
  
French Name
russe
  
sanskrit
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Sanskrit
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
2000 B.C.
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Vedic Sanskrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Sanskrit
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
sa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
san
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
san
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
san
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
sans1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Ancient
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic