1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Russia
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
South Africa
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Not Available
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.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Latin
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Hello
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Thank you
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
How are you?
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Good Morning
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Bye
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
I love you
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
American English
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Olonets
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA2,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million1,200.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million400.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 million400.00 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]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed English
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
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, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic