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Preferred term

Russian  

Definition

  • Russian is an East Slavic language with a close relation to Ukrainian and Belarusian. It is an official or unofficial but widely spoken language in some countries that were once constituent republics of the Soviet Union.Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages.Russian is written by Cyrillic alphabet.

Identifier

  • RUS

Notation

  • RU
  • ru
  • rus

In other languages

  • руски

    Bulgarian

  • ruski

    Croatian

  • ruština

    Czech

  • russisk

    Danish

  • Russisch

    Dutch

  • vene keel

    Estonian

  • venäjä

    Finnish

  • russe

    French

  • Russisch

    German

  • ρωσικά

    Greek

  • orosz

    Hungarian

  • rússneska

    Icelandic

  • Rúisis

    Irish

  • russo

    Italian

  • krievu valoda

    Latvian

  • rusų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • руски

    Macedonian

  • Russu

    Maltese

  • russisk

    Norwegian

  • rosyjski

    Polish

  • russo

    Portuguese

  • rusă

    Romanian

  • pусский

    Russian

  • русский
  • russky
  • руски

    Serbian

  • ruski

    Serbo-Croatian

  • ruština

    Slovak

  • ruščina

    Slovenian

  • ruso

    Spanish

  • ryska

    Swedish

  • rusça

    Turkish

  • російська мова

    Ukrainian

  • rušćina

    Upper Sorbian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/RUS

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