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Russian Language

Russian alphabet, Russian orthography, Russian dialects, Russian language history

Russian language

Russian: Official language of the Russian Republic.

Number of Russian Speakers: Over 220 million worldwide, including 160 million in Russia. Also spoken in Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and some other Turkic republics.

Language Classification: Slavic language family.

Russian Dialects: Three main dialects: the Nordic group (from Saint Petersburg to Siberia), the Southern group (most of Central and Southern Russia) and the central group (the area between the two groups above).

Russian Alphabet: Cyrillic which was first written in early middle ages.

Russian Orthography: Old Church Slavonic has stayed as written language in Russia until mid 18th century.

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Russian Language History: Russian language goes back to 500 AD. The 1919 Decree on Illiteracy made learning to write and speak the language mandatory. Spelling reform in 1945.

Russian Language Enriched by: French.

Russian Standardization Efforts: Quite a number of times in the Russian history.

Unique Features of Russian: Ivanovich means son of Ivan, Ivanova means daughter of Ivan.

 Russian language is included in the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

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