Russian language
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| Russian Русский язык Russkiy yazyk |
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| Spoken in: | Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia and Post-Soviet states, Slovakia, Uruguay and USA. | |
| Total speakers: | primary language: about 147 million secondary language: 113 million (1999 WA, 2000 WCD) |
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| Ranking: | 8 (native) | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic East Slavic Russian |
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| Writing system: | Cyrillic alphabet | |
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| Official language of: | Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, and Gagauzia. | |
| Regulated by: | none | |
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| ISO 639-1: | ru | |
| ISO 639-2: | rus | |
| ISO 639-3: | rus | |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Russian (Russian: русский язык, transliteration: russkiy yaz'ik) is an East Slavic language. This language is a part of the Indo-European language family. Russian is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages.
Russian is the official language of Russia, and also an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
[change] Naming
In Russian-speaking countries, people are supposed to name their children after their father. One of the most famous Russian names is Anastasia. Girls' middle names are their fathers name plus a feminine ending of either "evna" or "ovna." Boys have their father's name as well, with a masculine ending added of either "evich" or "ovich." Girls' have their father's last name, and most of the time to make it feminine they add an "a" to their father's last name. Boys also carry their fathers name, no ending is added.
EXAMPLE:
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- Father: Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov
- Daughter: Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova
- Son: Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov
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