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Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
46  
1

National Language
Russia  
Spain  

Second Language
Afganistan  
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America  

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom  

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española  

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 world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  

Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  
French Language  

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  
Latin  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
27  
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
5  
2

How Many Consonants
21  
11
22  
12

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  
hola  

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)  
Gracias  

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  
Cómo estás?  

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  
Buenas Noches  

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  
Bonne soirée  

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  
Buenas Tardes  

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  
Buenos Días  

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  
Por Favor  

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)  
triste  

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)  
adiós  

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  
Te Quiero  

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)  
Discúlpeme  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian  
Mexican Spanish  

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  
Mexico  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
105,000,000.00  
5

Dialect 2
Olonets  
Cuban Spanish  

Where They Speak
Olonets  
Cuba  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
11,000,000.00  
8

Dialect 3
Novgorod  
Puerto Rican Spanish  

Where They Speak
Novgorod  
Puerto Rico  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
3,900,000.00  
9

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million  
6
489.00 million  
3

Speaking Population
2.33 %  
9
6.15 %  
3

Native Speakers
166.00 million  
8
410.00 million  
2

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million  
7
89.50 million  
9

Native Name
Русский  
Español  

Alternative Names
Russki  
Castellano, Castilian, Español  

French Name
russe  
espagnol; castillan  

German Name
Russisch  
Spanisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]  

Ethnicity
Russians  
Not Available  

History

Origin
1000 AD  
210 BC  

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Romance  

Branch
Eastern  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic  
Old Spanish and Spanish  

Standard Forms
Standard Russian  
Pluricentric Standard Spanish  

Language Position
7  
7
2  
2

Signed Forms
Signed Russian  
Signed Spanish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ru  
es  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus  
spa  

ISO 639 2/B
rus  
spa  

ISO 639 3
rus  
spa  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
russ1263  
stan1288  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea  
51-AAA-b  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Russian and Spanish Language History

Comparison of Russian vs Spanish language history gives us differences between origin of Russian and Spanish language. History of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD whereas history of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Russian and Spanish Language History.

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Russian and Spanish 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 Spanish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Spanish language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Spanish word for "Thank You" is Gracias. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Spanish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Russian vs Spanish Difficulty

The Russian vs Spanish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Spanish 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 Spanish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Spanish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Spanish time required is 24 weeks.

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