Countries
Turkey, Uzbekistan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Middle East
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
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
- 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
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Salom
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Rakhmat
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Qalay siz?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Hayirli tun
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Hayirli kech
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Hayirli kun
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Hayirli tong
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Iltimos
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Kechiring!
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Xayr
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Sizni sevaman
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Iltimos! Menga qarang
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Tashkent
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
Olonets
Dialect 3
Ferghana
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Not Available
Novgorod
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
Русский
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Russki
French Name
ouszbek
russe
German Name
Usbekisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Origin
9th–12th centuries AD
1000 AD
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Branch
Southestern(Chagatai)
Eastern
Early Forms
Chagatay
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Uzbek
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
uzbe1247
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Uzbek 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 Uzbek and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Uzbek and Russian language. Uzbek word for "Hello" is Salom or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Uzbek Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Uzbek vs Russian Difficulty
The Uzbek vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Uzbek 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 Uzbek and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Uzbek and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Uzbek is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.