Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
China
  
National Language
Russia
  
China
  
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
  
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
  
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.
  
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Uzbek Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Gokturk Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Ässalamu läykum.
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
rakhmat
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
birdam
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
kachurung
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Khayr khosh
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
sizni yahshi kOrman
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Kachurung
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Turpan
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Hotan
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
China
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Lop Nur
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
China
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
10.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
  
French Name
russe
  
ouïgour
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Uigurisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Uyghur
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
11
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Uyghur
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
ug
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
uig
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
uig
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
uig
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
uigh1240
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available