Russian Language

Russian

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages and the largest native language in Europe.  English-Russkiy.com 

Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three living members of the East Slavic languages.

Today Russian is widely used outside Russia. Over a quarter of the world's scientific literature is published in Russian.

Russian  is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels, which is somewhat similar to that of English.

Russian is the Official language in

• Russia
• Belarus
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Moldova (Gagauzia and Transnistria)
• Turkmenistan (regional)
• Greece (Mount Athos)
• Uruguay (San Javier)
• Crimea (autonomous republic of Ukraine)
• Abkhazia  (co-official)
• South Ossetia  (co-official)
• CIS (working)
• IAEA
• United Nations

The Russian Language is Regulated by the Russian Language Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Russian Translation websites

Translation websites: Internet-Translation.com / TranslateEnglishRussian.com