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Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  
Japan  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
1  
14

National Language
Russia  
Japan  

Second Language
Afganistan  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia, Pacific  

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  
Palau  

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education  

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  

Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  
Korean Language  

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
33  
15
99  
40

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
5  
2

How Many Consonants
21  
11
14  
4

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Kana  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
88 weeks  
13

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)  

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)  
ありがとう (Arigatō)  

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)  

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)  

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  
こんばんは (Konbanwa)  

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)  

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  
おはよう (Ohayō)  

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)  

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)  
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)  

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)  
さようなら (Sayōnara)  

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)  

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)  
すみません (Sumimasen)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian  
Sanuki  

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  
Kagawa  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
1,000,000.00  
28

Dialect 2
Olonets  
Hakata  

Where They Speak
Olonets  
Fukuoka  

Dialect 3
Novgorod  
Kansai  

Where They Speak
Novgorod  
kansai  

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
31  
25

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million  
6
128.00 million  
14

Speaking Population
2.33 %  
9
1.90 %  
10

Native Speakers
166.00 million  
8
128.00 million  
9

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million  
7
Not Available  

Native Name
Русский  
日本語  

Alternative Names
Russki  
Not Available  

French Name
russe  
japonais  

German Name
Russisch  
Japanisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]  

Ethnicity
Russians  
Japanese (Yamato)  

History

Origin
1000 AD  
1185  

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  
Japonic Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Not Available  

Branch
Eastern  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic  
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese  

Standard Forms
Standard Russian  
Japanese  

Language Position
7  
7
8  
8

Signed Forms
Signed Russian  
Signed Japanese  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ru  
ja  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus  
jpn  

ISO 639 2/B
rus  
jpn  

ISO 639 3
rus  
jpn  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
russ1263  
nucl1643  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea  
45-CAA-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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Russian and Japanese Language History

Comparison of Russian vs Japanese language history gives us differences between origin of Russian and Japanese language. History of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD whereas history of Japanese language states that this language originated in 1185. 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 Japanese Language History.

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Russian and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Japanese language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Japanese word for "Thank You" is ありがとう (Arigatō). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Japanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Russian vs Japanese Difficulty

The Russian vs Japanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Japanese 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 Japanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Japanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Japanese time required is 88 weeks.

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