Russian in a nutshell

• Native name: русский язык [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
• Linguistic affiliation: Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, East Slavic
• Number of speakers: c. 260 million
• Spoken in: Russian, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Romania, Finland, Norway, Armenia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc.
• First written: 10th century AD
• Writing system: Cyrillic alphabet
• Status: official language in Russian, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and many other countries and territories.

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