Russian

Russian Ð ÑƒÑÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ·Ñ‹Ðº Russkij jazyk
Pronunciation:
Spoken in:	Russia, minorities in countries of the former Soviet Union, Moldova, Transnistria, San Javier (Uruguay), Tulcea County (Romania), emigrant communities around the world, notably Israel.

Total speakers:	primary language: about 164 million secondary language: 114 million (2006) total: 278 million
Ranking:	4-7
Language family:	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic East Slavic Russian
Writing system:	Cyrillic (Russian variant)
Official status
Official language in:	Russia Belarus Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Abkhazia South Ossetia Moldova (Gagauzia and Transnistria) Romania (Tulcea County (regional)) Turkmenistan (regional) Crimea (Ukraine) (de facto) CIS (working) IAEA United Nations
Regulated by:	Russian Language Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	`ru`
ISO 639-2:	`rus`
ISO 639-3:	`rus`
Countries of the world where Russian is spoken.
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Russian (Russian: Ñ€ÑƒÑÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ·Ñ‹Ðº, transliteration: russkij jazyk, Russian pronunciation: ) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three (or, according to some authorities, four) living members of the East Slavic languages, the others being Belarusian and Ukrainian (and possibly Rusyn, often considered a dialect of Ukrainian). It is also spoken by the countries of the Russophone.

Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century onwards. Today Russian is widely used outside Russia. It is applied as a means of coding and storage of universal knowledge â€” 60â€“70% of all world information is published in English and Russian languages. Over a quarter of the world's scientific literature is published in Russian. Russian is also a necessary accessory of world communications systems (broadcasts, air- and space communication, etc). Due to the status of the Soviet Union as a superpower, Russian had great political importance in the 20th century. Hence, the language is one of the official languages of the United Nations.

Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels, which is somewhat similar to that of English. Stress, which is unpredictable, is not normally indicated orthographically though, according to the Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an optional acute accent (Ð·Ð½Ð°Ðº ÑƒÐ´Ð°Ñ€ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ) may, and sometimes should, be used to mark stress (such as to distinguish between otherwise identical words or to indicate the proper pronunciation of uncommon words or names).

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