Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Wales
  
National Language
Russia
  
Wales
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Argentina, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Welsh Language Commissioner
  
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.
  
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
English Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
British Language
  
Alphabets in
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Welsh-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Helô
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Diolch
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Sut ydych chi?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Nos da
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Noswaith dda
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
P'nawn da
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Bore da
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
os gwelwch yn dda
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Hwyl
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Dw i'n dy garu di
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Esgusodwch fi
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Patagonian Welsh
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Argentina
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Y Wyndodeg
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Gwynedd
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Y Bowyseg
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Powys
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
7.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
7.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Cymraeg
  
French Name
russe
  
gallois
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Kymrisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Welsh people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Celtic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Brythonic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Welsh
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
cy
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
cym
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
wel
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
cym
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
wels1247
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
50-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Russian and Welsh Speaking population
Russian and Welsh speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Welsh languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Welsh Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Welsh language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Welsh on Russian vs Welsh where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and Welsh Language Codes
Russian and Welsh language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Welsh Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.