Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Russia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
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
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
آسف
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Русский
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
russe
  
arabe
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Arabs
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic