Russian language

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East Slavic language Indo-European language natural language

Russian is an East Slavic language spoken primarily in Russia and neighboring countries, serving as one of the world's major languages in politics, science, and culture.

Aliases (1)

Russian ×21

Statements (72)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	East Slavic language → Indo-European language → natural language →
closelyRelatedTo	Belarusian language → Ukrainian language →
hasAspectSystem	imperfective aspect → perfective aspect →
hasCaseSystem	six grammatical cases →
hasGrammaticalGender	feminine → masculine → neuter →
hasMajorDialectGroup	Central Russian dialects → Northern Russian dialects → Southern Russian dialects →
hasMorphologicalType	fusional language →
hasNotableAuthor	Alexander Pushkin → Anton Chekhov → Fyodor Dostoevsky → Leo Tolstoy → Nikolai Gogol →
hasNumberCategory	plural → singular →
hasPhonologicalFeature	palatalized consonants → rich consonant inventory →
hasStandardOrthographySince	early 20th century spelling reform →
historicalAncestor	Old East Slavic →
influencedBy	Church Slavonic → French language → German language → Mongolic languages → Turkic languages →
ISO639-1Code	ru →
ISO639-2Code	rus →
ISO639-3Code	rus →
isOfficialUNLanguage	true →
languageBranch	East Slavic languages →
languageFamily	Balto-Slavic languages → Indo-European languages → Slavic languages →
numberOfNativeSpeakers	over 150 million →
numberOfSpeakers	over 250 million →
officialLanguageOf	Belarus → Kazakhstan → Kyrgyzstan → Russian Federation →
officialLanguageStatus	official language in several post-Soviet states →
primaryCountry	Russia →
regionalOrMinorityLanguageIn	Azerbaijan → Estonia → Georgia → Germany → Israel → Latvia → Moldova → Ukraine → United States →
regulatingBody	no single official regulatory academy →
standardFormBasedOn	Moscow dialect →
subclassOf	Balto-Slavic language → Slavic language →
typicalWordOrder	SVO →
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn	former Soviet Union →
usedAsSecondLanguageBy	many people in Central Asia → many people in Eastern Europe →
usedInDomain	literature → mass media → politics → science → technology →
usesAlphabet	Russian Cyrillic alphabet →
writingDirection	left-to-right →
writingSystem	Cyrillic script →

Referenced by (48)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Chuvash Republic ("Russian") → Kaliningrad Oblast ("Russian") → Kyrgyzstan ("Russian") → Novosibirsk ("Russian") → United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ("Russian") → United Nations Population Fund ("Russian") →	officialLanguage
Karelian language → Kildin Sámi → Romanian language → Yugtun ("Russian") →	hasLoanwordsFrom
Bulgarian language → Estonian language → Kildin Sámi → Permic languages →	influencedBy
Bashkir language → Mingrelian language → Ossetian language → Turkmen language →	lexicalInfluenceFrom
Eurasian Economic Union ("Russian") → Sakha Republic ("Russian") → Vologda Oblast ("Russian") →	hasOfficialLanguage
Abkhaz language → Ossetian language →	coOfficialWith
Lake Peipus ("Russian") → middle Don River →	hasLanguageRegion
Standard Belarusian → Tat language ("Russian") →	hasLexicalInfluenceFrom
Ter Sami ("Russian") → Ter Sámi ("Russian") →	historicalContactLanguage
Balto-Slavic languages → Indo-European language family →	includesLanguage
Helsinki Convention ("Russian") → Southern Russia ("Russian") →	language
Belarusians →	alsoSpeak
Armand ("Russian") →	hasLanguageOfUse
Crimean Tatar language →	hasLinguisticInfluenceFrom
Enets →	historicalLanguageContact
Slavic languages →	includeLanguage
Church Slavonic →	influenced
Almaty ("Russian") →	languageMajority
Tat language ("Russian") →	languageShiftTo
Kristalina Georgieva ("Russian") →	languagesSpoken
Parliament of Kazakhstan →	languageUsed
Ter Sami ("Russian") →	neighboringLanguages
Ural Cossack forces →	usedLanguage
Belarusian Orthodox communities →	useLanguage
Ukrainian Navy →	uses
Chuvash →	usesLanguage