ru
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ru
Technical information about ru
language code (Russian) is available below.
Russian belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Slavic subgroup. It is the official language of Russia and is also one of the official languages in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. In Tajikistan, it is widely used for inter-ethnic communication. Russian is written using the Cyrillic script. It is estimated that there are more than 150 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Russian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
ru-BY
– Russian (Belarus)
ru-KG
– Russian (Kyrgyzstan)
ru-KZ
– Russian (Kazakhstan)
ru-MD
– Russian (Moldova)
ru-RU
– Russian (Russia)
ru-UA
– Russian (Ukraine)
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