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| <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">russkiy yazyk русский язык | ||
| Pronunciation | [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk] ( listen) | |
| Native to | Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other neighbouring Post-Soviet states | |
| Native speakers | 150 million (2010)ne2010 260 million (L1 plus L2 speakers) (2012) | |
| Language family | ||
| Early forms: | Old East Slavic
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| Writing system | Cyrillic (Russian alphabet) Russian Braille | |
| Official status | ||
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| Recognised minority language in | List | |
| 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 | |
| Linguasphere | 53-AAA-ea < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eaa to 53-AAA-eat) | |
 Countries where Russian is an official language (dark blue) or spoken as a first or second language by greater than 30% of the population (teal) | ||
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Russian (Russian: русский язык, transliteration: russkiy yaz'ik) is a Slavic language. It is the main language spoken in Russia. It is also spoken by many people in other parts of the former Soviet Union, such as in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkmenistan and Estonia.
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