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  2. Russian language in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Brooklyn became home to the largest Russian-speaking community in the United States; most notably, Brighton Beach has a large number of recent Russian immigrants and is also called "Little Odessa". [11] The New York state's Russian-speaking population was 218,765 in 2000, which comprised about 30% of all Russian-speakers in the nation.

  3. Russian Americans - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  4. Geographical distribution of Russian speakers - Wikipedia

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    According to estimates from Demoskop Weekly, in 2004 there were 3,243,000 native speakers of Russian in the country and 8 million active speakers; [33] 77% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 67% used it as the main language with family or friends or at work.

  5. Languages of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The population of Chinese speakers in the United States was increasing rapidly in the 20th century because the number of Chinese immigrants has increased at a rate of more than 50% since 1940. [ 84 ] 2.8 million Americans speak some variety of Chinese , which combined are counted by the federal census as the third most-spoken language in the ...

  6. Russian Americans in New York City - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. List of countries by number of languages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.

  9. Russian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The population of Russians in Singapore is estimated at 4,500 by local Russian embassy in 2018; [62] they are a largely-professional and business-oriented expatriate community, and among them are hundreds of company owners or local heads of branches of large Russian multinationals. [63]