Countries
India, Pakistan
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Pakistan
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Pakistan
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
India
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  
- 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
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
خوش آمديد
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
براہ مہربانی
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
معاف کرنا
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
الوداع
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Dakhini
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Rekhta
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
South Asia
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million
  
15
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
61.00 million
  
19
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million
  
14
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
اُردُو
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Bihari
  
Russki
  
French Name
ourdou
  
russe
  
German Name
Urdu
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Russians
  
Origin
12th Century CE
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ur
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
urd
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
urd
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
urd
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
urdu1245
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Urdu 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 Urdu and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Urdu and Russian language. Urdu word for "Hello" is خوش آمديد or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Urdu Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Urdu vs Russian Difficulty
The Urdu vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Urdu 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 Urdu and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Urdu and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Urdu is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.