Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Ghana, Ivory coast
  
National Language
Russia
  
Ghana
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Benin, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Akan Orthography Committee
  
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.
  
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Akan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
ete-sen
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
meda ase
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
wo ho te sɛn?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
maadwo
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
maadwo
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
maaha
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
maakye
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
wae
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Kafra
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
bye
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Me doכ wo
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
mepa wo kyɛw
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Asante
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
13
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Akuapem
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
9,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Fante
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,900,000.00
  
15
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
11.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
11.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Akan
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Not Available
  
French Name
russe
  
akan
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Akan-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Akan people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
15
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Akan
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
ak
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
aka
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
aka
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
aka
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
akan1251
  
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
  
Russian and Akan Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Russian and Akan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Akan language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Akan word for "Thank You" is meda ase. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Akan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Akan Difficulty
The Russian vs Akan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Akan Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Russian and Akan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Akan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Akan time required is 44 weeks.