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
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Ethiopic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Showa
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Ethiopia
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
18.70 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
10.00 million
  
23
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
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Ethiopic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Ge'ez
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Amharic
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Signed Amharic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
am
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
amh
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
amh
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
amh
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
amha1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
12-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
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.