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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
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
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 ...
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.
[54] [90] Russian is spoken by 14.2% of the population according to an undated estimate from the World Factbook. [57] In 2005, Russian was the most widely taught foreign language in Mongolia, [91] and was compulsory in Year 7 onward as a second foreign language in 2006. [92] Around 1.5 million Israelis spoke Russian as of 2017. [93]
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]
Today, Indo-European languages are spoken by billions of native speakers across all inhabited continents, [73] the largest number by far for any recognised language family. Of the 20 languages with the largest numbers of speakers according to Ethnologue , 10 are Indo-European: English , Hindustani , Spanish , Bengali , French , Russian ...