
Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three living members of the East Slavic languages. It is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe. Different estimates rank it as either seventh or eighth in terms of the number of speakers, which number an estimated 278 million. The history of the Russian language dates back to the sixth century AD, and is rooted in a lan...
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