- Russian language - Wikipedia
Russian[d] is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, [e] and is the native language of the Russians It was the de facto and de jure[f] official language of the former Soviet Union [21]
- Russian language | Origin, History, Dialects, Facts | Britannica
Russian language, principal state and cultural language of Russia Russian is the primary language of the overwhelming majority of people in Russia and is also used as a second language in other former republics of the Soviet Union
- Russian Language Lessons - Learn Russian For Free
Learn Russian online with our free Russian language lessons Includes Russian audio, grammar, vocabulary, alphabet, verbs, pronunciation and exercises
- Russian language and alphabet - Omniglot
Russian is an Eastern Slavic language spoken mainly in Russia and many other countries by about 260 million people, 150 million of whom are native speakers Russian is an official language in Russian, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and in a number of other countries, territories and international organisations, including Tajikistan
- Russia - Wikipedia
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia It is the largest country in the world, and extends across eleven time zones, sharing land borders with fourteen countries [d] With over 140 million people, Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous in the world
- The Russian Language - Русский язык - In Russian and English
The Russian language belongs to the Indo-European language family It is included to Slavonic group It has many relative languages Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Polish, Serbian are among them These languages have much in common Russians easily understand Belarusian and Ukrainian and also conversely The others are harder to understand
- Russians - Wikipedia
Russians (Russian: русские, romanized: russkiye [ˈruskʲɪje] ⓘ) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe Their mother tongue is Russian, the most spoken Slavic language The majority of Russians adhere to Orthodox Christianity, ever since the Middle Ages By total numbers, they compose the largest Slavic and European nation [47]
- Russian alphabet - Wikipedia
The Russian alphabet (ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, [a] or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, [b] more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language
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