Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Russia
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Filipinos
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Australia
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- In 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Baybayin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Kamusta
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Salamat po
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Kamusta ka na?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Magandang gabi
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Magandang gabi po
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Magandang hapon po
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Magandang umaga po
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
pakiusap
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
pinagsisisihan
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Paálam
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Iniibig kita
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Batangas Tagalog
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Batangas, Gabon
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Bisalog
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Philippines
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Filipino
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
73.00 million
  
24
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
45.00 million
  
13
Native Name
Русский
  
Tagalog
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Filipino, Pilipino
  
French Name
russe
  
tagalog
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Tagalog
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Tagalog people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1593
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Filipino
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
t1
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
tg1
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
taga1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
31-CKA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Russian and Tagalog 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 Tagalog greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Tagalog language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Tagalog word for "Thank You" is Salamat po. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Tagalog Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Tagalog Difficulty
The Russian vs Tagalog difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Tagalog 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 Tagalog are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Tagalog, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Tagalog time required is 44 weeks.