Russian translation
Русский язык
Language Connect provides professional Russian into English and English into Russian translations. Our mother tongue Russian translators only translate into Russian and habitually use Russian so that they are continuously up-to-date with the language’s evolution. For further information visit our translation services page.
Where is Russian spoken?
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Belarus |  |
Kazakhstan |  |
Russia |
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Commonwealth of Independent States |  |
Kyrgyzstan |  |
Turkmenistan |
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Ukraine |  |
International Atomic Energy Agency |  |
United Nations |
The Russian language is the most prominent of the Slavonic languages and one of the major languages of the world. In recent studies, 153 million people listed Russian as their mother tongue and another 61 million indicated they spoke it fluently as a second language.
The number of Russian speakers world-wide is estimated to be in the region of 220 million thus 10 per cent of the world’s population communicate in Slavonic and of these 60 per cent speak Russian.
Did you know?
The Russian language allows an interesting way of addressing people to whom you have just been introduced. The person’s first name is combined with a modified form of his or her father’s first name. If a man’s first name is Ivan and his father’s first name is also Ivan, you would call him Ivan Ivanovich (Ivan, son of Ivan), and if Ivan had a sister, she would be called Natasha Ivanovna, (Natasha, daughter of Ivan). The -ovich and -ovna suffixes are always appended to the father’s first name and not to the mother’s.
Russian is written using a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet. The Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters. The following table lists all of them in capitals:
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