Countries
Philippines
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Philippines
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Filipinos
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- In 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
  
- 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
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Baybayin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kamusta
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Salamat po
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Magandang gabi
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
pakiusap
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Paálam
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Iniibig kita
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Bisalog
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Filipino
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million
  
24
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million
  
13
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Tagalog
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
  
Russki
  
French Name
tagalog
  
russe
  
German Name
Tagalog
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
  
Russians
  
Origin
1593
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Filipino
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
t1
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
tg1
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
taga1269
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
31-CKA
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Tagalog 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 Tagalog and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tagalog and Russian language. Tagalog word for "Hello" is Kamusta or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Tagalog Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tagalog vs Russian Difficulty
The Tagalog vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tagalog 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 Tagalog and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tagalog and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tagalog is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.