Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Russia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
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
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
russe
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Georgians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Southern
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic