Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
West Java
  
National Language
Russia
  
Indonesia
  
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.
  
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Madurese and Malay Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sundanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin, Sundanese
  
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)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Nuhun
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Kumaha kabarna?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Wilujeng kulem
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Wilujeng wengi
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Wilujeng siang
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Wilujeng énjing
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Mangga
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Hapunten
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Wilujeng angkat
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Punten
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Western dialect
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Banten
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Northern dialect
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Bogor
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Priangan dialect
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Bandung
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
38.00 million
  
26
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Priangan, Sunda
  
French Name
russe
  
soundanais
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Sundanesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
5th century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Sundanese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
su
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
sun
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
sun
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
sun
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
sund1251
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available