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Languages Spoken in Russia Official: Russian
Russia has a population of 140.8 million and is one of the most linguistically diverse countries on earth, with 25 languages meeting our inclusion threshold. Russian serves as the official language. Of the languages spoken in Russia, 5 are supported by LEXIGO's professional translation services.
Languages spoken in Russia Tatar Regional
Cyrillic script
Chuvash
Chuvash alphabet, Cyrillic script
Chechen Regional
Arabic script, Chechen writing
Bashkir Regional
Arabic script, Cyrillic script
Avaric Regional
Avar alphabet, Cyrillic script
Kabardian Regional
Arabic script, Cyrillic script
Erzya Regional
Cyrillic script
Kumyk Regional
Arabic script, Cyrillic script
Yakut Regional
Cyrillic script, Sakha scripts
Ingush Regional
Cyrillic script
Buriat Regional
Cyrillic script, Latin script
Lezghian Regional
Cyrillic script
Moksha Regional
Cyrillic script
Karachay-Balkar Regional
Cyrillic script, Latin script
Tuvinian Regional
Cyrillic script, Latin script
Udmurt Regional
Cyrillic script, Udmurt alphabets
Komi Regional
Cyrillic script, Molodtsov alphabet
Adyghe Regional
Adyghe alphabet, Arabic script
Komi-Permyak Regional
Cyrillic script, Molodtsov alphabet
CIA World Factbook
"Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% (2010 est.)"
Data sources
Unicode CLDR (population percentages)
CIA World Factbook (official languages)
Wikidata (language families, scripts)
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