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Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   
Fiji, India   

Total No. Of Countries
4   
11
2   
13

National Language
Russia   
India   

Second Language
Afganistan   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Asia, Oceania   

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   
Central Hindi Directorate   

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.
  
  • In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
  • In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  

Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages   
Urdu   

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Hindi.jpg#200   

Alphabets
33   
15
44   
24

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
11   
8

How Many Consonants
21   
11
33   
23

Scripts
Cyrillic   
Devanagari   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   
नमस्ते (Namastē)   

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)   
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)   

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)   
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)   

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)   
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)   

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)   
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)   

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')   
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)   

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)   
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)   

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)   
कृपया (Kr̥payā)   

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)   
खेद (Khēda)   

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)   
अलविदा (Alavidā)   

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)   
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)   

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)   
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian   
Khariboli   

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
99+
240,000,000.00   
2

Dialect 2
Olonets   
Marwari   

Where They Speak
Olonets   
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
22,000,000.00   
3

Dialect 3
Novgorod   
Bundeli   

Where They Speak
Novgorod   
Bundelkhand   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
20,000,000.00   
4

Total No. Of Dialects
13   
13
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million   
6
380.00 million   
5

Speaking Population
2.33 %   
9
4.70 %   
5

Native Speakers
166.00 million   
8
260.00 million   
4

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million   
7
120.00 million   
6

Native Name
Русский   
हिन्दी   

Alternative Names
Russki   
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli   

French Name
russe   
hindi   

German Name
Russisch   
Hindi   

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]   

Ethnicity
Russians   
Hindustani people   

History

Origin
1000 AD   
7th Century   

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Indo-Iranian   

Branch
Eastern   
Indic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Russian   
Standard Hindi   

Language Position
7   
7
5   
5

Signed Forms
Signed Russian   
Indian Signing System   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
ru   
hi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus   
hin   

ISO 639 2/B
rus   
hin   

ISO 639 3
rus   
hin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
hins   

Glottocode
russ1263   
hind1269   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea   
59-AAF-qf   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Russian and Hindi Language History

Comparison of Russian vs Hindi language history gives us differences between origin of Russian and Hindi language. History of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD whereas history of Hindi language states that this language originated in 7th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Russian and Hindi Language History.

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Russian and Hindi 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 Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Hindi language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Russian vs Hindi Difficulty

The Russian vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Hindi 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 Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.

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