Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Japan
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 in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Kagawa
Where They Speak
Olonets
Fukuoka
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Kansai
Where They Speak
Novgorod
kansai
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Alternative Names
Russki
Not Available
French Name
russe
japonais
German Name
Russisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Russians
Japanese (Yamato)
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Japanese
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
nucl1643
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
45-CAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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.