Countries
Wales
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Wales
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  
- 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
English Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
British Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Helô
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Diolch
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Nos da
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Bore da
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Hwyl
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Argentina
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Powys
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
  
Russki
  
French Name
gallois
  
russe
  
German Name
Kymrisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Welsh people
  
Russians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Celtic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Brythonic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Welsh
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
cy
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
cym
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
wel
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
cym
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
wels1247
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
50-ABA
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Welsh 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 Welsh and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Welsh and Russian language. Welsh word for "Hello" is Helô or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Welsh Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Welsh vs Russian Difficulty
The Welsh vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Welsh 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 Welsh and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Welsh and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Welsh is 30 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.