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Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   
Myanmar   

Total No. Of Countries
4   
11
1   
14

National Language
Russia   
Myanmar   

Second Language
Afganistan   
Bangladesh, Burma   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan   
Mon   

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences   
Myanmar Language Commission   

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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
  • It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  

Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages   
Thai Language   

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary   
Pali Language   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
33   
15
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
12   
9

How Many Consonants
21   
11
33   
23

Scripts
Cyrillic   
Tangut   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)   

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)   
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)   

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)   
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)   

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)   
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)   

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)   
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)   

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')   
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)   

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)   
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)   

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)   
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)   

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)   
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)   

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)   
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)   

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)   
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)   

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)   
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian   
Arakanese   

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
99+
2,000,000.00   
24

Dialect 2
Olonets   
Tavoyan   

Where They Speak
Olonets   
Myanmar   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
440,000.00   
30

Dialect 3
Novgorod   
Intha   

Where They Speak
Novgorod   
Burma   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
90,000.00   
30

Total No. Of Dialects
13   
13
5   
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million   
6
43.00 million   
30

Speaking Population
2.33 %   
9
0.50 %   
29

Native Speakers
166.00 million   
8
33.00 million   
28

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million   
7
10.00 million   
23

Native Name
Русский   
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)   

Alternative Names
Russki   
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa   

French Name
russe   
birman   

German Name
Russisch   
Birmanisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Russians   
Bamar people   

History

Origin
1000 AD   
1113 AD   

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Eastern   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic   
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese   

Standard Forms
Standard Russian   
Modern Burmese   

Language Position
7   
7
43   
32

Signed Forms
Signed Russian   
Burmese sign language   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
ru   
my   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus   
mya   

ISO 639 2/B
rus   
bur   

ISO 639 3
rus   
mya   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
russ1263   
sout3159   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Analytic, Isolating   

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Russian and Burmese Language History

Comparison of Russian vs Burmese language history gives us differences between origin of Russian and Burmese language. History of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD whereas history of Burmese language states that this language originated in 1113 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Russian and Burmese Language History.

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Russian and Burmese 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 Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Burmese language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Russian vs Burmese Difficulty

The Russian vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Burmese 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 Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.

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