Russian at a glance

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 

Classification

Indo-European language family > Slavic (Slavonic) group of languages

Script:

Cyrillic (33 letters in the alphabet)

Text direction:

from left to right

Vocabulary:

very large vocabulary estimated to be up to 500,000 words

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