1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Georgia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Russia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
1.6 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
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Anatolian Languages
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
Arabic, Georgian script
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)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Judaeo-Georgian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million4.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million4.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Russki
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Kartvelian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Georgian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
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
53-AAA-ea
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic