Countries
India
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
Hello
Henda ho
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Adi Johar
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Boge Ninda
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Not Available
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Not Available
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Not Available
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Not Available
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Not Available
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Not Available
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Mahali
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
India
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
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Русский
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Russki
German Name
Santali
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Russians
Origin
20th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Santali
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ru
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sant1410
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Santali 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 Santali and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Santali and Russian language. Santali word for "Hello" is Henda ho or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Santali Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Santali vs Russian Difficulty
The Santali vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Santali 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 Santali and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Santali and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Santali is Not Available while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.
