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Name:
Russian
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Great Russian; Russki; Olossu; Eluosi; Russ; Russit; Russisch
Spoken in:
Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Ukraine, USA, Uruguay, Azerbaijan, Finland, India, Estonia, Georgia, Tajikistan, China, Germany, Israel, Poland, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Czech Republic, Uzbekistan, Canada, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Slovakia, Greece, Latvia
Number of speakers:
116,000,000 in Russian Federation (2002 census). Population total all countries: 143,553,950
(Ethnologue)
Code:
rus
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Dialect:
Old Russian; Vladimir-Suzdal (orv-vls)
Child Dialect Groups:
South Russian; Southern Russian (rus-sou)
Central Russian (rus-cen)
North Russian; Northern Russian (rus-nor)

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