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
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
6.30 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
  
Russki
  
French Name
santal
  
russe
  
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
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sat
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
sat
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
sat
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sant1410
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
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.