ISO 639-3 · rusrus
Indo-European family
Russian
русский язык
Russian is a language of the East Slavic branch (Indo-European), spoken in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Wikidata counts 154 m first-language speakers (2019) and 110.4 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “East Slavic language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
rus- ISO 639-1
ru- Glottocode
russ1263- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 55.00, 38.00
- Wikipedia
- 320 language editions
154 mfirst-language speakers
110.4 msecond-language speakers
3countries
1scripts
4levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Russian · русский язык |
|---|---|
| Also called | Russian language, Russkiy, Russkiy yazyk |
| L1 speakers | 154,000,000 (2019) |
| L2 speakers | 110,440,620 (2010) |
| All speakers | 110,000,000 (2009) |
| Written in | Cyrillic |
| Official in | Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan |
| Grammatical cases | 9 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 4 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Russian
The branches above Russian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Russia
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