Language code: ru
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ru
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The table below provides technical details for the Russian language, designated by the ru code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Russian Native Русский |
| Family | Slavic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | Northern RussianCentral RussianSouthern Russian |
| Related languages | UkrainianBelarusianRusyn |
| Key facts | Written with a 33-letter Cyrillic alphabetDistinguishes hard and soft (palatalized) consonantsAlmost every verb forms perfective–imperfective aspect pairsStress is mobile and unpredictable, affecting meaningThe letter "ё" is often replaced by "е" in writing, though it signals a different sound. |
| Sample phrase | Привет, как дела? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-5, Windows 1251, CP 866, MacCyrillic, KOI8-R, KOI8-RU, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
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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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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ