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Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1]: 160,000,000 [1]: 2 German: 97,000,000 [2]: 170,000,000 [3]: 3 French: 81,000,000 [4]: 210,000,000 ...
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [69] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [70] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
Russian: Indo-European: Balto-Slavic: 148 million 108 million 255 million Urdu (excl. Hindi) Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 70 million 168 million 238 million Indonesian (excl. other Malay) Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian: 44 million 155 million 199 million Standard German: Indo-European: Germanic: 76 million 58 million 134 million Japanese ...
Of approximately 1.5 million exiles during the Russian Civil War, about 400,000 took up residence in France.Political refugees, White émigrés gathered around charities like the Zemgor Committee and the company of the Russian Red Cross, the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (founded in 1924) and the Action chrétienne des étudiants russes (ACER ) (1926), which provided to their ...
The 2009 census states that 482,200 people speak Russian as a native language, including 419,000 ethnic Russians, and 63,200 from other ethnic groups, for a total of 8.99% of the population. [9] Additionally, 1,854,700 residents of Kyrgyzstan aged 15 and above fluently speak Russian as a second language, 49.6% of the population in that age ...
Ex-Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact countries: Many people speak Russian fluently, especially in Slavic countries within the area of the former USSR (typically in Belarus and Ukraine), along with Moldova, which has a Slavic minority. However, few Polish, Slovak or Czech people speak Russian, despite huge expenditures in the past. Abkhazia.
There are many Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany [60] and France. [citation needed] Many immigrant communities in the EU have been in place for several generations now, and their members are bilingual, at ease both in the local language and in that of their community. [61]
Many Russian Americans do not speak Russian, [5] having been born in the United States and brought up in English-speaking homes. In 2007, however, Russian was the primary spoken language of 851,174 Americans at home, according to the US census. [ 4 ]