Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Thailand
  
National Language
Russia
  
Thailand
  
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
  
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
  
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.
  
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Khmer Language
  
Alphabets in
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Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Thai
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
โปรด (Pord)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Isan
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Isan
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Northern Thai
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Northern Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
13
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Southern Thai
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
8
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
20.00 million
  
37
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
40.00 million
  
15
Native Name
Русский
  
ภาษาไทย
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
  
French Name
russe
  
thaï
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Thailändisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1283 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Tai-Kadai Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Tai
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old Thai
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Thai
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Thai Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
th
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
tha
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
tha
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
tha
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
thai1261
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
47-AAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating