Russian is the largest native language in Europe and is in the Slavic branch of the Indo-European group.
Russian
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Classification
Indo-European > Slavic
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Official language
Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan
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Speakers
145 million
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Also spoken
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Turkmeni
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Script
Cyrillic
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Text direction
Left-to-right
Russian
It is a major language as it is spoken by 144 million people, spread across vast distances. It is also one of the 6 official languages of the UN. It is spoken as a native language in Russia and most ex-soviet states, and there are sizeable communities of Russian speakers in the US, Germany and Israel.
It uses 33 letters and is written in the Cyrillic script.
Unusually for a language that is spread over such a huge area, Russian is relatively uniform in spelling and vocabulary. Some regional differences do exist but not to the same extent as in other languages. Russian-speaking groups in different countries do, however, normally require texts to be adapted to their specific locale.
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Interesting fact
Vodka is such an integral part of Russian culture that its name is even derived from the Russian word вода (voda), which means “water”.
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