Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Russia
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
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)
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
günaydın
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Русский
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
russe
  
turc
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Turkish
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic