Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Russia
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
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
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
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Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Hai
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
sila
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
maaf
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Русский
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Not Available
  
French Name
russe
  
malais
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Russian and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Malaysian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Russian vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.