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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
41
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Russia
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Not Available
1.8 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.
  • Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
  • The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
3353
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
1010
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2143
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
63
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Molo
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Ndiyabulela
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Unjani
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Molo
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Ndicela
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Ndicela uxolo
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Gcaleka
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Olonets
Thembu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Olonets
South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Novgorod
Hlubi
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Novgorod
South Africa
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
139
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million20.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
2.33 %0.11 %
Persian
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million8.20 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 million11.00 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Русский
isiXhosa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Russki
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
russe
xhosa
5.3.5 German Name
Russisch
Xhosa-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Russians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
1000 AD
16th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
Eastern
Bantu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
isiXhosa
6.3.3 Language Position
7NA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Xhosa
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ru
xh
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
rus
xho
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
rus
xho
7.3 ISO 639 3
rus
xho
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
russ1263
xhos1239
7.6 Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
99-AUT-fa
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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Russian and Xhosa Alphabets

Russian and Xhosa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Xhosa. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Xhosa Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Russian and Xhosa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Xhosa languages. The Russian phonology consist Russian vowels and Russian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Russian greetings vs Xhosa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Xhosa are Most Spoken Languages.

All Russian and Xhosa Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Russian and Xhosa dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Xhosa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Xhosa Dialects are spoken in different Xhosa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Xhosa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Xhosa dialects include: Gcaleka , Thembu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Russian and Xhosa Speaking population

Russian and Xhosa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Xhosa languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Xhosa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 %. 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 Xhosa on Russian vs Xhosa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Xhosa Language Codes

Russian and Xhosa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Xhosa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.