Language · Indo-European
Russian
русский – its own name
Official or co-official in 4 countries. Listed in 23 countries.
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 208 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Cyrillic
Where it is spoken
- Official 1
- Co-official 3
- Widely used 11
- Minority 8
Official
- Russia 99% 139 million
Co-official
- Kazakhstan 72% 15 million
- Belarus 71% 6.7 million
- Kyrgyzstan 36% 2.2 million
Widely used
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Ukraine
46%
16 million
A minority language and widely known second language; Ukrainian is the only state language.
- Poland 18% 7.0 million
- Uzbekistan 14% 5.1 million
- Lithuania 80% 2.1 million
- Armenia 65% 1.9 million
- Bulgaria 23% 1.6 million
- Tajikistan 12% 1.2 million
- Israel 11% 1.0 million
- Turkmenistan 12% 689 thousand
- Latvia 38% 684 thousand
- Estonia 56% 669 thousand