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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 by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2024 [4] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 ...

  4. Russian language in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first Russian-language newspaper in the United States, Svoboda (Freedom), was published in 1867–1871; it was known as the Alaska Herald in English. Dozens of short-lived Russian newspapers were published until 1940. [16] Russkaya Reklama (Russian Advertisement) weekly, founded in 1993 in Brooklyn, New York, is the largest Russian-language ...

  5. Russians - Wikipedia

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    It is the most-spoken native language in Europe, [87] the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, [88] as well as the world's most widely spoken Slavic language. [88] Russian is the third-most used language on the Internet after English and Spanish, [89] and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station ...

  6. Russian dialects - Wikipedia

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    Lake Peipus dialect (Russian: Причудский говор) is a Russian language variety spoken on both sides of Lake Peipus in Pskov Oblast, Russia and some counties of Estonia where Russian is a frequently-spoken or dominant language. It originated as a mix of Pskov and Gdov dialects of the Central Russian cluster.

  7. Moscow dialect - Wikipedia

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    The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica wrote: [4]. Literary Russian as spoken by educated people throughout the empire is the Moscow dialect... The Moscow dialect really covers a very small area, not even the whole of the government of Moscow, but political causes have made it the language of the governing classes and hence of literature.

  8. List of languages of Russia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of languages used in Russia. 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 ]

  9. Geographical distribution of Russian speakers - Wikipedia

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    Making Russian language one of the most-spoken immigrant language in Finland. [54] Until 2022 the popularity of Russian language was growing because of an increase in trade with and tourism from the Russia and other Russian-speaking countries and regions. [55]