1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Russia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Arabic Language
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
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)
Habari
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Habari gani?
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Usiku mwema
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Habari za jioni
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
nzuri Alasiri
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Habari za asubuhi
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
tafadhali
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
bye
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
nakupenda
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Samahani
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Kiunguja
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Zanzibar island
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 million150.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million15.00 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
Russki
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Russians
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Niger-Congo 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
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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
Not Available