2015/07/20 by Irena Yanushevskaya, Daniel Bunčić · 13 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics and Cultural Studies #Russian language #Slavic languages #Russian federation #State (computer science) #Population #Political science #Official language #Geography #Linguistics #History #Demography #Sociology #Law #Classics
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openalex publication_date 2015/07/20 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Russian (ISO 639-3 rus) is an Indo-European East Slavic language spoken by about 162 million people as their first language and about another 110 million as their second language (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2013), mainly in the Russian Federation (where it is the native language of about 80% of the population, see Berger 1998, Federal’naja služba gosudarstvennoj statistiki (Federal State Statistics Service) 2012: 228–232) and in the other former republics of the USSR (among which it is co-official in Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan). Large groups of Russian speakers (so-called heritage speakers) also live in Europe (especially Germany: almost 3 million or 3.5% of the population, Brehmer 2007: 166–167), Israel (about 1 million or 20%, Glöckner 2008) and the United States (850,000 or 0.3%, Shin & Kominski 2010: 6).