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For example, English has about 450 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as two billion speakers. [2] There are also difficulties in obtaining reliable counts of speakers, which vary over time because of population change and language shift.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many Russians have migrated to the United States and brought the language with them. Most Russian speakers in the United States today are Russian Jews. According to the 2010 United States Census the number of Russian speakers was 854,955, which made Russian the 12th most spoken language in the country. [1]
Ethnic Russians are 25.5% of the country's current population [49] and 58.6% of the native Estonian population is also able to speak Russian. [50] In all, 67.8% of Estonia's population could speak Russian. [50] The command of Russian, however, is rapidly decreasing among younger Estonians and is primarily being replaced by the command of English.
The 2009 census states that 482,200 people speak Russian as a native language, or 8.99% of the population. [88] Additionally, 1,854,700 residents of Kyrgyzstan aged 15 and above fluently speak Russian as a second language, or 49.6% of the population in the age group. [88]
Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1]: 160,000,000 [1]: 2 German: 97,000,000 [2]: 170,000,000 [3]: 3 French: 81,000,000 [4]: 210,000,000 ...
In 2015, a survey taken in all federal subjects of Russia showed that 70% of Russians could not speak a foreign language. Almost 30% could speak English, 6% could speak German, 1% could speak French, 1% could speak Spanish, 1% could speak Arabic and 0.5% could speak another language. [73]
Finland borders Russia directly, and from 1809 until 1917 was a Grand Duchy of Finland in personal union with the Russian Empire. As of 2013, Finland had 31,000 Russian citizens, which amounted to 0.56% of the population, [67] and 80,000 (1.5%) [clarification needed] speak Russian as their mother tongue.
English is the most widespread language in the country due to the many different languages spoken, with 60 million speakers. [5] This includes speakers of an English creole, accounting for 51% to 57% of the total population. [5] [6] It is estimated 10% of Nigerians speak English as a first language. [7] Pakistan: 220,892,331: 108,044,691: 48.91 ...