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Russian Language



Countries
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Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan 0

Total No. Of Countries
4 11

National Language
Russia 0

Second Language
Afganistan 0

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe 0

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan 0

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 0

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.
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Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages 0

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
33 15

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
10 7

How Many Consonants
21 11

Scripts
Cyrillic 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
0

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) 0

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo) 0

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?) 0

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi) 0

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher) 0

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den') 0

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro) 0

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta) 0

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite) 0

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya) 0

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu) 0

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite) 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian 0

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan 0

How Many People Speak
30,000.00 46

Dialect 2
Olonets 0

Where They Speak
Olonets 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Novgorod 0

Where They Speak
Novgorod 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
13 13

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million 6

Speaking Population
2.33 % 9

Native Speakers
166.00 million 8

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million 7

Native Name
Русский 0

Alternative Names
Russki 0

French Name
russe 0

German Name
Russisch 0

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk] 0

Ethnicity
Russians 0

History
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Origin
1000 AD 0

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family 0

Subgroup
Slavic 0

Branch
Eastern 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
Old East Slavic 0

Standard Forms
Standard Russian 0

Language Position
7 7

Signed Forms
Signed Russian 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
0

ISO 639 1
ru 0

ISO 639 2
0

ISO 639 2/T
rus 0

ISO 639 2/B
rus 0

ISO 639 3
rus 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
russ1263 0

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea 0

Types of Language
0

Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic 0

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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.

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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.

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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.

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