Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Russia
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
maaf
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
Русский
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
russe
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Indonesian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
indo1316
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Russian and Indonesian 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 Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Indonesian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Indonesian Difficulty
The Russian vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Indonesian 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 Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.