1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Macedonia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Russia
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
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
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Здраво (Zdravo)
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Добар ден (Dobar den)
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
жал (žal)
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Чао (Čao)
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Torlakian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.001.50
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 million2.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million2.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Русский
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Russki
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
5.5 Ethnicity
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
Standard Russian
Macedonian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Macedonian 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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic