Slavic vs Russian

Russian vs Slavic

Slavic and Russian both are nouns.

Slavic and Russian both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Slavic	Yes	Yes	No	No
Russian	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Russian is a hyponym of Slavic; that is, Russian is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Slavic:

Slavic: a branch of the Indo-European family of languages
Russian: the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia

Other hyponyms of Slavic include Church Slavic, Church Slavic language, Old Bulgarian, Old Bulgarian language, Old Church Slavic, Old Church Slavic language, Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic language, Russian language, Belarusian, Belarusian language, Byelorussian, Byelorussian language, White Russian, White Russian language, Ukrainian, Ukrainian language, Polish, Polish language, Slovak, Slovak language, Czech, Czech language, Slovene, Slovene language, Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croatian, Lusatian, Lusatian language, Sorbian, Sorbian language, Macedonian, Macedonian language, Bulgarian, Bulgarian language.

Slavic (noun)	Russian (noun)
a branch of the Indo-European family of languages	the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia
	a native or inhabitant of Russia

Slavic (adjective)	Russian (adjective)
of or relating to Slavic languages	of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language

Difference between Slavic and Russian

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