Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Among urban residents, 101 million people (99.8%) had Russian language skills, and in rural areas, the number was 37 million people (98.7%). [73] The number of native Russian-speakers in 2010 was 118.6 million (85.7%), [citation needed] a bit higher than the number of ethnic Russians (111 million, or 80.9%). [citation needed]
Many Russian Americans do not speak Russian, [5] having been born in the United States and brought up in English-speaking homes. In 2007, however, Russian was the primary spoken language of 851,174 Americans at home, according to the US census. [ 4 ]
The New York Tri-State area has a population of 1.6 million Russian-Americans and 600,000 of them live in New York City. [5] There are over 220,000 Russian-speaking Jews living in New York City. [6] Approximately 100,000 Russian Americans in the New York metropolitan area were born in Russia. [7]
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic , other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [ 1 ]
The Russian diaspora is the global community of ethnic Russians. The Russian-speaking diaspora are the people for whom Russian language is the native language, regardless of whether they are ethnic Russians or not.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( September 2018 ) This is a list of United States politicians who were born outside the present-day United States , its territories (the District of Columbia , Puerto Rico , Guam , the U.S. Virgin Islands , the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , and American Samoa ...
The second highest nationwide status after the state language ("the Russian language is used as an official one"). Constitution: 1. The state language of the Kyrgyz Republic shall be the Kyrgyz language. 2. In the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian language is used as an official one. (Article 10) 3. Tajikistan