About Russian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Russian is a popular East Slavic language. It is widely spoken in Russia and Eastern Europe. This is a part of the Indo-European language family and is among the four living East Slavic languages. Russian is the official language of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Interestingly widely spoken in Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and many other Baltic states. Russian is spoken by over 258 million speakers all over the world. It is written in the Cyrillic script. You can easily distinguish between consonant phonemes with palatal articulation. It has a combination of soft and hard sounds. This distinction is a prominent feature of Russian. Another aspect is the reduction of vowels that are not stressed. Some homographic words include замо́к (zamók – a 'lock') and за́мок (zámok – a 'castle'). You may not be able to indicate the pronunciation of uncommon words.
About Kurdish (Kurmanji) Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Kurmanji (Kurdish) is popularly known as Northern Kurdish. It is the northern dialect of the Kurdish language. Kurdish is spoken in Southeast Turkey and Northwest Iran and Syria. Interestingly it is also popular for many non-Kurdish minorities. There are many different dialects of this language. Northwestern, Southwestern, Northern, and Southern Kurmanji. The Kurdish language is written in two alphabets that is Latin and Hawar. The Hawar alphabet is commonly used in Syria, Turkey, and Armenia. Central Kurdish features eight different vowels while seven are represented with letters. The letters are quite similar to English. It also gets some inspiration from the Armenian alphabet. There are 15 million native speakers of Kurdish.
