10 Most Spoken Languages in the World
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Saturday, 19 November 2011, 00:28 IST |
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Russian
The Russian language is a member of the East Slavic family of languages, a family which also includes the Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Rusyn languages. Most of Russian's 144 million speakers live in Russia, where it is the official language. Other countries with large Russian-speaking populations include Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
Russian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet. These languages are also spoken in other countries as most of them migrate for various purposes.