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Language code: rus

Technical information about ISO 639 language code rus

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The table below provides technical details for the Russian language, designated by the rus code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

rus

Name

Official

Russian

Native

Русский

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Northern RussianCentral RussianSouthern Russian
Related languages
BelarusianUkrainianRusyn
Key facts
Written with a 33-letter Cyrillic alphabet that includes distinctive letters like Ё and ЫWord stress is phonemic and can shift between forms, causing strong vowel reduction in unstressed positionsVerbal aspect (perfective vs. imperfective) is a core grammatical category, often expressed by entirely different verb stemsModern Russian preserves six grammatical cases and remnants of a historical seventh (the locative)It has the largest number of native speakers among all Slavic tongues.
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

Supported in Localizely

The Russian language, identified by the code rus, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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