Russian is one of the important languages. Russian countries are the countries where Russian is used for interaction between citizens and government officials. Russian countries are the countries where Russian is main language. In Russian countries, all the official documents are written in Russian language. In Russian speaking countries, various Russian Dialects are spoken. Each Russian dialect has it's own pronunciations and words, as a result of these differences, sometimes communication problems arise between speakers from different Russian speaking countries. Check out detailed information About Russian Language.
Russian speaking countries include both countries with Russian national language and Russian as a second language. Check if Russian language is one of the Most Spoken Languages.
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Second Language is a non-native language of the speaker, but used in the locality of that person.
The Russian countries mentioned under Russian Speaking countries are the countries where majority of people speak Russian language.
Countries with Russian as minority language are also included in Russian speaking countries.
Along with Russian speaking countries check out Russian speaking population. The language spoken by minority of the population of a territory is called minority language.
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Many world languages have one or more language regulators. The bodies that regulate standard languages are usually called language academies. Official organizations that regulate Russian language are Russian regulators. Russian is regulated by Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The regulatory bodies of Russian lie in Russian speaking countries. Some of the interesting facts of Russian:
The Russian language is derived from Proto-Slavic Vocabulary and is closely related to Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages.