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Russian lost its status as the official lingua franca of Turkmenistan in 1996. [32] According to estimates from Demoskop Weekly, in 2004 there were 150,000 native speakers of Russian in the country and 100,000 active speakers. [33] Russian is spoken by 12% of the population, according to an undated estimate from the World Factbook. [35]
The Russian language is a language of inter-ethnic communication. (Article 2) Implementation: The Russian language is used in the legislative process. The official publication of laws and regulations is carried out in Russian. De facto entities recognised as de jure sovereign states by at least one UN member state; a. Abkhazia
Map of all areas where the Russian language is the language spoken by the majority of the population. South Slavic dialect continuum with major dialect groups West Slavic dialect continuum with major dialect groups. East Slavic languages: Belarusian: ISO 639-1 code: be; ISO 639-3 code: bel; Russian: ISO 639-1 code: ru; ISO 639-3 code: rus
Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2] [3] Number of living languages and speakers ... Russia: 115 44 159 2.24 138,698,335
Karelia – Russian is official, but Karelian is spoken by the ethnic Karelian minority. North Ossetia–Alania – Russian and Ossetian are co-official [228] Udmurtia – Russian and Udmurt are co-official [229] Chechnya – Russian and Chechen are co-official [230] Chuvashia – Russian and Chuvash are co-official [231]
Russian; Serbian; Slovak; Tatar; Turkish; Ukrainian; Russia: 1 Russian (33 languages) Rwanda: 4 English; French; Kinyarwanda; Swahili; Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic [a] 2 Arabic; Spanish; Arabic Saint Kitts and Nevis: 1 English Saint Lucia: 1 English Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 1 English Samoa: 2 English; Samoan; San Marino: 1 Italian ...
Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.
It is the most-spoken native language in Europe, [87] the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, [88] as well as the world's most widely spoken Slavic language. [88] Russian is the third-most used language on the Internet after English and Spanish, [89] and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station ...