1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Afganistan
Lesotho, South Africa
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
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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
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2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Molo
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Ndiyabulela
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Unjani
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Molo
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Ndicela
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Ndicela uxolo
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Gcaleka
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
South Africa
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 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Russki
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Russians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
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
Standard Russian
isiXhosa
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Xhosa
6.4 Scope
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
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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
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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