Russian language

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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.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Russian language canonical 94
Russian 28
Standard Russian 1

How this entity was disambiguated

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
linked to: Russia
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
linked to: Soviet Union
usedAsSecondLanguageBy many people in Central Asia
many people in Eastern Europe
usedInDomain literature
mass media
politics
science
technology
usesAlphabet Russian Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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Estonian language influencedBy Russian language
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Kyrgyzstan officialLanguage Russian
linked to: Russian language
Church Slavonic influenced Russian language
Sakha Republic hasOfficialLanguage Russian
linked to: Russian language
Ossetian language coOfficialWith Russian language
Ossetian language lexicalInfluenceFrom Russian language
Bashkir language lexicalInfluenceFrom Russian language
Abkhaz language coOfficialWith Russian language
United Nations Population Fund officialLanguage Russian
linked to: Russian language
Balto-Slavic languages includesLanguage Russian language
Yugtun hasLoanwordsFrom Russian
linked to: Russian language
Armand hasLanguageOfUse Russian
linked to: Russian language
middle Don River hasLanguageRegion Russian language
Parliament of Kazakhstan languageUsed Russian language
Eurasian Economic Union hasOfficialLanguage Russian
linked to: Russian language
Almaty languageMajority Russian
linked to: Russian language
Tat language languageShiftTo Russian
linked to: Russian language
Tat language hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Russian
linked to: Russian language
Mingrelian language lexicalInfluenceFrom Russian language
Chuvash Republic officialLanguage Russian
linked to: Russian language
Vologda Oblast hasOfficialLanguage Russian
linked to: Russian language
Bulgarian language influencedBy Russian language
Ter Sámi historicalContactLanguage Russian
linked to: Russian language
Southern Russia language Russian
subject linked to: southern Russia
linked to: Russian language
Karelian language hasLoanwordsFrom Russian language
Enets historicalLanguageContact Russian language
Novosibirsk officialLanguage Russian
linked to: Russian language
Ter Sami neighboringLanguages Russian
linked to: Russian language
Ter Sami historicalContactLanguage Russian
linked to: Russian language
Permic languages influencedBy Russian language
Kristalina Georgieva languagesSpoken Russian
linked to: Russian language
Chuvash usesLanguage Russian language
Ukrainian Navy uses Russian language
Kildin Sámi influencedBy Russian language
Kildin Sámi hasLoanwordsFrom Russian language
Kaliningrad Oblast officialLanguage Russian
linked to: Russian language
Helsinki Convention language Russian
linked to: Russian language
Lake Peipus hasLanguageRegion Russian
linked to: Russian language
Ural Cossack forces usedLanguage Russian language
United Nations official languages includes Russian
linked to: Russian language
Sakha language lexicalInfluenceFrom Russian language