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Russian is spoken by 29.6% of the population, according to a 2011 estimate from the World Factbook. [35] 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]
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.)
Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family. It is a descendant of Old East Slavic, a language used in Kievan Rus', which was a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid-13th centuries. From the point of view of spoken language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn, [ 37 ...
People in Kazakhstan were fluent in Russian (84.8%), Kazakh (62%), English (7.7%). [2] 2. Kyrgyzstan. 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.
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 ...
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.
e. The European Union (EU) has 24 official languages, of which three – English, French and German – were considered "procedural" languages but this notion was abandoned [1] of the European Commission (whereas the European Parliament accepts all official languages as working languages). [2] In fact English and French are used in the day-to ...
Atlas Linguarum Europae. The Atlas Linguarum Europae (literally Atlas of the Languages of Europe, ALE in acronym) is a linguistic atlas project launched in 1970 with the help of UNESCO, and published from 1975 to 2007. The ALE used its own phonetic transcription system, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet with some modifications.