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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Russia

1.4 Second Language

Afganistan

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

1.7 Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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.

1.9 Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

1.10 Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Cyrillic

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

3.2 Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)

3.3 How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)

3.4 Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

3.5 Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

3.6 Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

3.7 Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

3.8 Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

3.9 Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)

3.10 Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)

3.11 I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

3.12 Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

30,000.00
Rank: 46 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Olonets

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Olonets

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Novgorod

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Novgorod

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

13
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

276.00 million
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

2.33 %
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

166.00 million
Rank: 8 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

110.00 million
Rank: 7 (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Русский

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Russki

5.3.4 French Name

russe

5.3.5 German Name

Russisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

5.5 Ethnicity

Russians

6 History

6.1 Origin

1000 AD

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Slavic

6.2.2 Branch

Eastern

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old East Slavic

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Russian

6.3.3 Language Position

7
Rank: 7 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Signed Russian

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

ru

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

rus

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

rus

7.3 ISO 639 3

rus

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

russ1263

7.6 Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Origin of Russian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Russian language is one of the Most Spoken Languages. The origin of Russian language states that it was put to use in 1000 AD. The history of Russian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Russian Language History.The evolution of Russian language began with early forms such as Old East Slavic. Standard Russian is the standard form of Russian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Russian Language.

Russian population

Russian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Russian language. Russian language is spoken by 276.00 million people in the world. Most of the Russian population lies in the Russian Speaking Countries. Russian language is spoken as first language by 166.00 million people and as second language by about 110.00 million people. Get to know Russian speaking population in detail.

Russian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Russian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Russian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Cyrillic script is used by Russian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Russian language

Check out all the information about Russian language here. You may find it interesting to learn Russian Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Russian Speaking Countries, Russian speaking continents and Russian Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Russian countries knowing common Russian Greetings will help you in communicating with Russian people.