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Russian language

Russian (ISO 639-3 code rus) is a language of the Indo-European family spoken in 20 countries. It has about 255,000,000 speakers.

Russian dictionary: 425,025 entries on Glottosphere. Open the Russian dictionary

Facts

ISO 639-3 coderus
Glottocoderuss1263
FamilyIndo-European
AreaEurasia
CountriesBelarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Speakers (estimate)255,000,000

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Classification, area and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Speaker numbers are estimates and differ between sources.