Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Russia
  
Pakistan
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Pakistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
India
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
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.
  
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Alphabets in
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Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
خوش آمديد
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
آپ کا شکریہ
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
گڈ نائٹ
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
سلام علیکم
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
گڈ مارننگ
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
براہ مہربانی
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
معاف کرنا
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
الوداع
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
معاف کیجئے گا
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Dakhini
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Rekhta
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
South Asia
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
104.00 million
  
15
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
61.00 million
  
19
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
43.00 million
  
14
Native Name
Русский
  
اُردُو
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Bihari
  
French Name
russe
  
ourdou
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Urdu
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
12th Century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Signed Urdu
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
ur
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
urd
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
urd
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
urd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
urdu1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
59-AAF-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Russian and Urdu 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 Urdu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Urdu language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Urdu word for "Thank You" is آپ کا شکریہ. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Urdu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Urdu Difficulty
The Russian vs Urdu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Urdu 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 Urdu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Urdu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Urdu time required is 44 weeks.