Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Turkey, Uzbekistan
  
National Language
Russia
  
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Middle East
  
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.
  
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Uzbek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Salom
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Rakhmat
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Qalay siz?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Hayirli tun
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Hayirli kech
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Hayirli kun
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Hayirli tong
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Iltimos
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Kechiring!
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Xayr
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Sizni sevaman
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Iltimos! Menga qarang
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Tashkent
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Afghan
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Ferghana
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
26.00 million
  
31
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
russe
  
ouszbek
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Usbekisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Uzbek
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
9th–12th centuries AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Southestern(Chagatai)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Chagatay
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Uzbek
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
uz
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
uzbe1247
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available