1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Benin, Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
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)
Ẹ n lẹ
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Bawo ni o se wa
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Kasun layọ o
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
ka a ale
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
e kaasan
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
e kaaro
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Jowo
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
bye
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
mo nifẹ rẹ
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
mo tọrọ gafara
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Itsekiri
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Nigeria
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million28.00 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
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
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
Yoruba Sign Language
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
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
Analytic, Isolating