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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 the Caucasus and Central Asia .
The 2009 census states that 482,200 people speak Russian as a native language, including 419,000 ethnic Russians, and 63,200 from other ethnic groups, for a total of 8.99% of the population. [9] Additionally, 1,854,700 residents of Kyrgyzstan aged 15 and above fluently speak Russian as a second language, 49.6% of the population in that age ...
The Constitution of Dagestan defines "Russian and the languages of the peoples of Dagestan" as the state languages, [64] though no comprehensive list of the languages was given. [ citation needed ] [ dubious – discuss ] 14 of these languages (including Russian) are literary written languages; therefore they are commonly considered to be the ...
Balto-Slavic language tree. [citation needed] Linguistic maps of Slavic languagesSince the interwar period, scholars have conventionally divided Slavic languages, on the basis of geographical and genealogical principle, and with the use of the extralinguistic feature of script, into three main branches, that is, East, South, and West (from the vantage of linguistic features alone, there are ...
Lake Peipus dialect (Russian: Причудский говор) is a Russian language variety spoken on both sides of Lake Peipus in Pskov Oblast, Russia and some counties of Estonia where Russian is a frequently-spoken or dominant language. It originated as a mix of Pskov and Gdov dialects of the Central Russian cluster.
The East Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs. [3] They speak the East Slavic languages, [4] and formed the majority of the population of the medieval state Kievan Rus', which they claim as their cultural ancestor. [5] [6] Today Belarusians, Russians and Ukrainians are the existent East Slavic nations.
[13] [14] [15] Old Russian is also used to describe the written language in Russia until the 18th century, [16] when it became Modern Russian, though the early stages of the language is often called Old East Slavic instead; [17] the period after the common language of the East Slavs is sometimes distinguished as Middle Russian, [18] or Great ...
Russian dialects and territorial varieties are divided in two conceptual chronological and geographic categories: [1] The territory of the primary formation (e.g. that consist of "Old" Russia of the 16th century before Eastern conquests by Ivan IV) is fully or partially modern regions (oblasts): Vologda, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Novgorod, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Arkhangelsk.