Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
European Union, Slovenia
  
National Language
Russia
  
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
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.
  
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Serbo-Croatian
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
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)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Kako se imate?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Lahko noč
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Dober večer
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Dober dan
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Prosim
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Nasvidenje
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Ljubim te
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Hungary, Slovenia
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Resian
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Italy
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Styrian
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
French Name
russe
  
slovène
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Slowenisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Slovenes
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
972-1093
  
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
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Slovene
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
sl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
slv
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
slv
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
slv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
slov1268
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
53-AAA-f
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional