Alternate Names: Russki
Dialects: North Russian, South Russian.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 137,000,000 in Russian Federation (2010 census). Population total all countries: 167,332,230.
Language Development: Fully developed. Bible: 1680–2011.
Typology: SVO; prepositions; genitives after noun heads; adjectives, numerals before noun heads; question word initial; 1 prefix on a word; recursive addition of suffixes allowed; nontonal.
Spoken In: Ukraine, Russian Federation, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Writing System: Braille, Cyrillic
Nation of Origin: Russian Federation
Other Comments: Christian.