Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
East Asia, European Union, South America
National Language
Russia
East Asia, European Union
Second Language
Afganistan
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe, South America
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
Akademio de Esperanto
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 most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
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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)
Halo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Dankon
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Kiel vi sanas?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Bonan nokton
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Bonan vesperon
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Bonan posttagmezon
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Bonan matenon
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Mi petas
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Mi bedaŭras!
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Ĝis poste
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Mi amas vin
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Pardonu!
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Not present
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Not present
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Not present
Where They Speak
Olonets
Not present
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Not present
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Not present
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
Esperanto
Alternative Names
Russki
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
French Name
russe
espéranto
German Name
Russisch
Esperanto
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[espeˈranto]
Ethnicity
Russians
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Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Eastern
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Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Esperanto
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Esperanto
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signuno
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
russ1263
espe1235
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
51-AAB-da
Language Type
Living
Constructed
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Russian and Esperanto 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 Esperanto greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Esperanto language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Esperanto word for "Thank You" is Dankon. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Esperanto Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Esperanto Difficulty
The Russian vs Esperanto difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Esperanto 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 Esperanto are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Esperanto, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Esperanto time required is 6 weeks.