Russian language
East Slavic language mainly spoken across Russia.
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Russian alphabet
The Russian alphabet (ру́сский алфави́т, or ру́сская а́збука, more traditionally) is used to write Russian words.
Lingua franca
Language or dialect systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
Language or dialect systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
Likewise, Arabic, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian serve similar purposes as industrial and educational lingua francas across regional and national boundaries.
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples or their descendants.
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples or their descendants.
Of these, 10 have at least one million speakers and official status as the national languages of the countries in which they are predominantly spoken: Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian (of the East group), Polish, Czech and Slovak (of the West group) and Bulgarian and Macedonian (eastern dialects of the South group), and Serbo-Croatian and Slovene (western dialects of the South group).
De facto
De facto (de facto, "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, whether or not they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
De facto (de facto, "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, whether or not they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
Russian was the de facto official language of the central government and, to a large extent, republican governments of the former Soviet Union, but was not declared de jure state language until 1990.
Palatalization (phonetics)
Way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.
Way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.
In Russian, both plain and palatalized consonant phonemes are found in words like большой, царь and Катя.
Old East Slavic
Cyrillic letters in this article are romanized using scientific transliteration.
Cyrillic letters in this article are romanized using scientific transliteration.
Old East Slavic (traditionally also Old Russian; старажытнаруская мова; древнерусский язык; давньоруська мова) was a language used during the 10th–15th centuries by East Slavs in Kievan Rus' and its successor states, from which the Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian languages later evolved.
Stress (linguistics)
Relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.
Relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.
Other languages, like English and Russian, have lexical stress, where the position of stress in a word is not predictable in that way but lexically encoded.
Belarusian language
East Slavic language.
East Slavic language.
It is the native language of many Belarusians and one of the two official state languages in Belarus, along with Russian.
Ukrainian language
East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family.
East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family.
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Comparisons are often drawn to Russian, a prominent Slavic language, but there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian, Ukrainian's closest relative.
Russians
East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe, who share a common Russian ancestry, culture, and history.
East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe, who share a common Russian ancestry, culture, and history.
Russian, the most spoken Slavic language, is the shared mother tongue of the Russians; and Orthodox Christianity is their historical religion since the 11th century.