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A language of Russian Federation (Europe)
| Population | 116,000,000 in Russian Federation (2002 census). Population total all countries: 143,553,950. |
| Region | Also in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan. |
| Language maps | European Russia European Russia, reference number 26 |
| Alternate names | Russki |
| Dialects | North Russian, South Russian. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Slavic, East |
| Language use | National language. 110,000,000 L2 speakers. |
| Language development | Fully developed. Bible: 1680–1993. |
| Writing system | Cyrillic script. |
| Comments | SVO; prepositions; genitives after noun heads; articles, adjectives, numerals before noun heads; question word initial; 1 prefix on a word; recursive addition of suffixes allowed; nontonal. Christian. Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/. |
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