Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
National Language
Russia
Ethiopia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Not Available
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
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Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Selam
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
i'bakwon
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
aznallehu
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
tschao
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Gondar
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Gondar
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Olonets
Ethiopia
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Ethiopia
Native Name
Русский
Not Available
Alternative Names
Russki
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
russe
amharique
German Name
Russisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Russians
Amharas
Origin
1000 AD
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Amharic
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
amha1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
12-ACB-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Russian and Amharic 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 Amharic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Amharic language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Amharic word for "Thank You" is amesege'nallo'. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Amharic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Amharic Difficulty
The Russian vs Amharic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Amharic 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 Amharic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Amharic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Amharic time required is 44 weeks.