Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Israel
  
National Language
Russia
  
Israel
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Israel
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Academy of the Hebrew Language
  
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 original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Arabic and Aramaic languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Aramaic Language
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Vowels
0
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Hebrew
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
שלום (Shalom)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
תודה (Toda)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
בבקשה (bevekshah)
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
סליחה! (Slicha)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
להתראות (Lehitraot)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
בבקשה!
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Ashkenazi Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Israel
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Samaritan Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Israel, Palestine
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Yemenite Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Israel
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
9.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
4.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
5.60 million
  
27
Native Name
Русский
  
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Israeli, Ivrit
  
French Name
russe
  
hébreu
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Hebräisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1000 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Canaanitic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Modern Hebrew
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Signed Hebrew
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
he
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
heb
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
heb
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
heb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
hebr1246
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
12-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Russian and Hebrew 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 Hebrew greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Hebrew language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Hebrew word for "Thank You" is תודה (Toda). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Hebrew Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Hebrew Difficulty
The Russian vs Hebrew difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Hebrew 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 Hebrew are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Hebrew, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Hebrew time required is 44 weeks.