1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Latvia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 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
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Latvian State Language Center
1.8 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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Lithuanian Language
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Sveiki
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Kā jums klājas?
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Ar labunakti
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Labvakar
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Labdien
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Labrīt
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
lūdzu
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Piedodiet!
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Uz redzēšanos
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Es tevi mīlu
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Piedodiet!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Livonian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Latvia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million1.75 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million1.75 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Russians
Latvians or Letts
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Latvian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic