
Russian is one of the top 5 most spoken languages around the world:
1. Chinese Mandarin – more than 1 billion speakers
2. English - 508 million speakers
3. Hindi - 497 million speakers
4. Spanish - 392 million speakers
5. Russian - 277 million speakers
Russian is the official language of the Russian Federation (population 147 million) and it is widely spoken in:
Armenia - Azerbaijan - Belarus - Estonia - Finland - Georgia - Germany - Israel - Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Latvia - Lithuania - MoldovaMongolia - Poland - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Ukraine - United States - Uzbekistan
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Classification |
Indo-European language family > Slavic (Slavonic) group of languages |
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Script: |
Cyrillic (33 letters in the alphabet) |
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Text direction: |
from left to right |
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Vocabulary: |
very large vocabulary estimated to be up to 500,000 words |