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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 ...
According to the 2010 Census data, 14.7% of the Russian speakers in the United States are aged between 5 and 17. This is significantly lower than the English speakers (18.8% aged 5–17), but much higher when compared to speakers of Polish (11.3%) and Hungarian (6.8%). The Russian-speaking population is younger in states with large Old Believer ...
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]
Every year the Russian Ministry of Education and Science publishes statistics on the languages used in schools. In 2014/2015 the absolute majority [75] (13.1 million or 96%) of 13.7 million Russian students used Russian as a medium of education. Around 1.6 million or 12% students studied their (non-Russian) native language as a subject.
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.
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]
The first new waves of Russian settlers onto what is now Ukrainian territory came in the late-16th century to the empty lands of Slobozhanshchyna [7] (in the region of Kharkiv) that Russia had gained from the Tatars, [8] or from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [citation needed] - although Ukrainian peasants from the Polish-Lithuanian west escaping harsh exploitative conditions outnumbered them.
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.