1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Cyrillic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Olonets
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Novgorod
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating