Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
National Language
Russia
France, Spain
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
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
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages 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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Spanish
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Kaixo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Zer moduz?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Gabon
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Egun on
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Mesedez
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Barkatu
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Agur
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
France
Dialect 2
Olonets
Souletin
Where They Speak
Olonets
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Biscayan
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Spain
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
Not available
Alternative Names
Russki
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
German Name
Russisch
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
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Ethnicity
Russians
Basque people
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Eastern
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Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Basque
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
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Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
russ1263
basq1248
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
40-AAA-a
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Russian and Basque 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 Basque greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Basque language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Basque word for "Thank You" is Eskerrik asko. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Basque Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Basque Difficulty
The Russian vs Basque difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Basque 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 Basque are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Basque, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Basque time required is 88 weeks.