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Languages of Poland; ... is an East Central German dialect spoken ... and 18% of Poles declared to be able to have a conversation in English, German, and Russian ...
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]
Russian is used routinely in business, government, and inter-ethnic communication, although Kazakh is slowly replacing it. [1] Russian is the most spoken language. According to the 2009 census, 94% of people in Kazakhstan understood verbal Russian and 74% understood verbal Kazakh.
Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family.It is a descendant of Old East Slavic, a language used in Kievan Rus', which was a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid-13th centuries.
East Slavic languages are currently spoken natively throughout Eastern Europe, and eastwards to Siberia and the Russian Far East. [1] In part due to the large historical influence of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, the Russian language is also spoken as a lingua franca in many regions of Caucasus and Central Asia. Of the three Slavic ...
The variety of Rusyn spoken in Poland is generally known as Lemko language (лемківскій язык lemkivskij jazyk). [34] northeastern regions of Hungary. northern regions of Romania (in Maramureș). Pannonian Rusyn is spoken by the Pannonian Rusyns in the region of Vojvodina (in Serbia), and in a nearby region of Slavonia (in Croatia).
Greater Polish, spoken in the west; Lesser Polish, spoken in the south and southeast Goral, spoken in the mountains on the Poland-Slovakia border; Masovian, spoken throughout the central and eastern parts of the country; Silesian [3] [4] spoken in the southwest (sometimes also considered a separate language)
The mixture was then heavily influenced by the languages spoken by the burghers of Warsaw and the royal court of Poland. These included the Italian, Yiddish, French, Latin and English. In the 19th century during the Partitions of Poland the dialect incorporated a great number of borrowed words from German and then Russian.