Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India
National Language
Russia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Not Available
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
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Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Henda ho
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
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Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Boge Setak’
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Not Available
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Not Available
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Not Available
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Not Available
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Not Available
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Mahali
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Not present
Where They Speak
Olonets
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Not present
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Russki
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
German Name
Russisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
1000 AD
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Santali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
russ1263
sant1410
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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Russian and Santali 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 Santali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Santali language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Santali word for "Thank You" is Adi Johar. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Santali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Santali Difficulty
The Russian vs Santali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Santali 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 Santali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Santali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Santali time required is Not Available.
