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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Xhosa Language
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)
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
bye
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Olonets
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Olonets
Georgia, South Africa
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 million16.00 million
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
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
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
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
Not Available