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Russian is a minority language. Russian [e] is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia. It is the native language of the Russians and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is one of four living East Slavic languages, [f] and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages.
It is the native language of the Russians and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is one of four living East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages. It was the de facto and de jure official language of the former Soviet Union.
Russian (Russian: русский язык, transliteration: russkiy yaz'ik) is a Slavic language. It is the main language spoken in Russia. It is also spoken by many people in other parts of the former Soviet Union, such as in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkmenistan and Estonia .
No single periodization is universally accepted, but the history of the Russian language is sometimes divided into the following periods: Old Russian or Old East Slavic (until the 14th or 15th century) Middle Russian (14th or 15th century until the 17th or 18th century) Modern Russian (17th or 18th century to the present)
The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized: Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of May 2024, it has 1,978,228 articles. It was started on 11 May 2001. In October 2015, it became the sixth-largest Wikipedia by the number of articles.
May 4, 2024 · Russian language, principal state and cultural language of Russia. Together with Ukrainian and Belarusian, the Russian language makes up the eastern branch of the Slavic family of languages. Russian is the primary language of the overwhelming majority of people in Russia and is also used as a second language in other former republics of the ...
Languages of Russia - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) History. Russification. Official languages. Other recognized languages. Migrant languages. Endangered languages in Russia. Languages near extinction. Foreign languages. English. History. Languages of education. See also. References. Further reading. External links. Languages of Russia.
