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  2. Languages of Russia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of languages of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russian is the only official language at the national level and there are other 35 official languages, which are used in different regions of Russia. [1]

  4. List of countries and territories where Russian is an ...

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    In the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian language is used as an official one. (Article 10) 3. Tajikistan. Constitutional status of the " language of inter-ethnic communication ", the second highest nationwide status after the state language. Constitution: The state language of Tajikistan is the Tajik language.

  5. Russian language - Wikipedia

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    Russian[ e ] is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, [ f ] and is the native language of the Russians. It was the de facto and de jure[ 23 ] official language of the former Soviet Union. [ 24 ]

  6. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    Berges Institute. Retrieved 27 May 2023. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and it is an official language, either de facto (in practice) or de jure (by law) in 20 countries. Spanish is also an official language in Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organization of American States.

  7. History of the Russian language - Wikipedia

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    The official language in Russia remained a kind of Church Slavonic until the close of the 18th century, but, despite attempts at standardization, as by Meletius Smotrytsky in c. 1620, its purity was by then strongly compromised by an incipient secular literature.

  8. Languages of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Before the Bolshevik Revolution, Russian was the official language for the Russian Empire, with the exception of a few permitted languages in autonomous regions as Poland, Finland, and the Baltic provinces. Regional languages were discouraged or forbidden, as was the case of Ukrainian between 1876 and 1905. There was no explicit plan to enable ...

  9. Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russia,[b]or the Russian Federation,[c]is a country spanning Eastern Europeand North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zonesand sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d]It is the world's ninth-most populous countryand Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanised country ...