Russian language
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Spoken in: | Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, baltic countries (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia), CIS-coutries (Moldova, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia), Turkmenistan, Germany, Israel, USA | ||||||||||||||||
Speaker: | 170 Million (native speaker) 110 Million (second language) |
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Rank: | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
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Country: | Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan | ||||||||||||||||
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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.
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