Russian language
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| Russian Русский язык Russkiy yazyk |
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| Spoken in: | Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia and Post-Soviet states, Slovakia, Uruguay and USA. | |
| Total speakers: | primary language: about 147 million secondary language: 113 million (1999 WA, 2000 WCD) |
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| Ranking: | 8 (native) | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic East Slavic Russian |
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| Writing system: | Cyrillic alphabet | |
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| Official language of: | Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, and Gagauzia. | |
| Regulated by: | none | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | ru | |
| ISO 639-2: | rus | |
| ISO 639-3: | rus | |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Russian (Russian: русский язык, transliteration: russkij yazyk) is an eastern slavic language. This language is a part of the indo-european language family. Russian language is the most widely spoken of the slavic languages.
Russian is the official language of Russia, and also an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. People were encouraged to speak Russian in the former Soviet Union, but now, many countries that were once part of the Soviet Union speak a local language.
This language has its own Wikipedia Project.
See the Russian language edition
