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URL. ru.wikipedia.org. The Russian Wikipedia ( Russian: Русская Википедия) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in May 2001. It currently has about 1,978,000 articles. [1] It is currently the 7th largest edition.
Most descriptions of Russian describe it as having five vowel phonemes, though there is some dispute over whether a sixth vowel, / ɨ /, is separate from /i/. Russian has 34 consonants, which can be divided into two types: hard ( твёрдый [ˈtvʲɵrdɨj] ⓘ) or plain. soft ( мягкий [ˈmʲæxʲkʲɪj] ⓘ) or palatalized.
Spanish is a Romance language which developed from Vulgar Latin in central areas of the Iberian peninsula and has absorbed many loanwords from other Romance languages like French, Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, and Italian. [1] Spanish also has lexical influences from Arabic and from Paleohispanic languages such as Iberian, Celtiberian and Basque.
An individual's achievement of moderate proficiency or understanding in a language (called L2) other than their first language (L1) typically requires considerable time and effort through study and practical application if the two languages are not very closely related. [1] Advanced speakers of a second language typically aim for ...
According to estimates from Demoskop Weekly, in 2004 there were 600,000 native speakers of Russian in the country, and 1.5 million active speakers. [33] 38% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 22% used it as the main language with family or friends or at work. [34]
Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...
Keyboard layout. QWERTY. The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English ), which is the de facto national language. In addition, 32 U.S. states out of 50 and all five U.S. territories have declared English as an official language.
