Language code: ru

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ru

Technical information about ru language code (Russian) is available below.

ISO code

ru

Language

Official

Russian

Native

Русский

Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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.

Language presence globally

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Russian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

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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