Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Czech Republic, European Union
National Language
Russia
Czech Republic
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of the Czech Language
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 Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
ahoj
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
děkuji
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Jak se máš?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
dobrou noc
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
dobré odpoledne
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
dobré ráno
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
prosím
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
litovat
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
sbohem
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Miluji tě
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
promiňte
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Chod
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Chodsko, Bohemia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Olonets
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Moravian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
čeština / český jazyk
Alternative Names
Russki
Bohemian, Cestina
French Name
russe
tchèque
German Name
Russisch
Tschechisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Czechs
Origin
1000 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Czech
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Czech Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
czec1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-da
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Russian and Czech 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 Czech greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Czech language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Czech word for "Thank You" is děkuji. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Czech Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Czech Difficulty
The Russian vs Czech difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Czech 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 Czech are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Czech, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Czech time required is 44 weeks.