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This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List ... Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1 ...
Until 2022 the popularity of Russian language was growing because of an increase in trade with and tourism from the Russia and other Russian-speaking countries and regions. [55] However after the year of 2022, various statistics show a notable decline in the popularity of Russian language in Finnish society.
It is the most spoken native language in Europe, [30] the most spoken Slavic language, [31] as well as the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia. [31] It is the world's seventh-most spoken language by number of native speakers, and the world's ninth-most spoken language by total number of speakers. [32]
Slavic languages in Europe . Areas where languages overlap are shown in stripes. Russian Language – Map of all the areas where the Russian language is the language spoken by the majority of the population. Russian is the biggest Slavic language both in number of first language speakers and in geographical area where the language is spoken .
Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, German, French, Italian, and English. Russian is the most-spoken native language in Europe, [4] and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language. (See English language in Europe.)
Of all the languages of Russia, Russian, the most widely spoken language, is the only official language at the national level. There are 25 other official languages , which are used in different regions of Russia.
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 ...
It is the most-spoken native language in Europe, [87] the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, [88] as well as the world's most widely spoken Slavic language. [88] Russian is the third-most used language on the Internet after English and Spanish, [89] and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station ...