Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Russia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Русский
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
russe
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
sinh1246
  
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
  
Fusional