Countries
India
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
India
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Old German Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Prakrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Not present
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Novgorod
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
14.10 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
sanskrit
  
russe
  
German Name
Sanskrit
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Russians
  
Origin
2000 B.C.
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sa
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
san
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
san
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
san
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sans1269
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Ancient
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Sanskrit and Russian 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 Sanskrit and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sanskrit and Russian language. Sanskrit word for "Hello" is नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Sanskrit Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sanskrit vs Russian Difficulty
The Sanskrit vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sanskrit Alphabets and Russian 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 Sanskrit and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sanskrit and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sanskrit is 20 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.