Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
India
  
National Language
Russia
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
  
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.
  
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Munda Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Henda ho
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Adi Johar
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Cet’leka menama?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Boge Ninda
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Boge Ayup’
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Boge Setak’
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Not Available
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Not Available
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Mahali
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
India
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
6.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
6.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
  
French Name
russe
  
santal
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Santali
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Santali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
sat
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
sat
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
sat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
sant1410
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available