Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
National Language
Russia
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Afganistan
Roman Empire
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
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Armenian
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Latin
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Greece
Where They Speak
Olonets
Italy
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Ukraine
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Russki
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
russe
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Russisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Russians
Greeks or Hellenes
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Greek
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
ells
Glottocode
russ1263
gree1276
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
56-AAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Russian and Greek 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 Greek greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Greek language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Greek word for "Thank You" is ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Greek Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Greek Difficulty
The Russian vs Greek difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Greek 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 Greek are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Greek, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Greek time required is 44 weeks.