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Countries

Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
46  
1
4  
11

National Language
Spain  
Russia  

Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
  • 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
French Language  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Latin  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
27  
9
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
22  
12
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hola  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
Gracias  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
Cómo estás?  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
Buenas Noches  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
Bonne soirée  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
Buenos Días  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
Por Favor  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
triste  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
adiós  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

I Love You
Te Quiero  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
Discúlpeme  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Mexico  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00  
5
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Cuba  
Olonets  

How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00  
8
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Puerto Rico  
Novgorod  

How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00  
9
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
489.00 million  
3
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
6.15 %  
3
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
410.00 million  
2
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
89.50 million  
9
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
Español  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español  
Russki  

French Name
espagnol; castillan  
russe  

German Name
Spanisch  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
Russians  

History

Origin
210 BC  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  

Subgroup
Romance  
Slavic  

Branch
Not Available  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish  
Old East Slavic  

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
2  
2
7  
7

Signed Forms
Signed Spanish  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
es  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
spa  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
spa  
rus  

ISO 639 3
spa  
rus  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
stan1288  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
51-AAA-b  
53-AAA-ea  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Spanish and Russian Language History

Comparison of Spanish vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Spanish and Russian language. History of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 BC whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Spanish and Russian Language History.

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Spanish 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 Spanish and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Spanish and Russian language. Spanish word for "Hello" is hola or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Spanish Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Spanish vs Russian Difficulty

The Spanish vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Spanish 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 Spanish and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Spanish and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Spanish is 24 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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