1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Albanian 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
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)
hallo
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Wie geht es dir?
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
gute Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
guten Abend
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
guten Tag
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
guten Morgen
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
bitte
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Verzeihung
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Tschüs
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Entschuldigung
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Swiss German
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Switzerland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA820,000.00
700
80000000
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 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million101.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 million128.00 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]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed German
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
russ1263
high1287, uppe1397
7.6 Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
52-ACB–dl & -dm
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic