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Русский · Cyrl script, written left to right. Spoken in The former USSR, as a second language of Kurdish communities.

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ru · Cyrl · left to right · on request

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Russian

Русский · Cyrl script, written left to right. Spoken in The former USSR, as a second language of Kurdish communities.

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ScriptCyrlleft to righton request

Record

ru
РусскийRussian · Cyrl
Code
ru
Family
Slavic
Where
The former USSR, as a second language of Kurdish communities
Phase
on request
Coverage
not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

1 in the catalogue
Democracy and the rule of lawKCO-CIV-01 · Open for enrolment on study.kurds.global
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Writing

1 script

Its own names

русскийrusskiy
left to right

Scripts

Cyrl
Russian Cyrillic alphabetа б в г д е ё ж
33 letters
  • Former USSR
Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.

Resources

3 resources
Russian National Corpuscorpus · Russian Academy of Sciences · checked 2026-10-23
verified
Universal Dependencies: Russian SynTagRus treebankcorpus · Universal Dependencies · checked 2026-10-23
verified
Glottolog: Russianreference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
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Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Family
Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Balto-Slavic, then Slavic, then East Slavic
Codes
ISO 639-3 rus · Glottolog russ1263
Dialects
Russian: Central Russian, Kodiak Creole Russian, Ninilchik, North Russian, South Russian (14 listed in all)
Standing
Russian: not endangered (1 (National)) secondary
Sounds
36 consonants and 6 vowels, after Yanushevskaya and Bunčić 2015 · the inventory verified

b bʲ ɕː d̪ d̪ʲ f fʲ ɡ ɡʲ j k kʲ l lʲ m mʲ n̪ n̪ʲ p pʲ r ɾʲ s sʲ ʂ t̪ tɕ t̪ʲ t̪s v vʲ x xʲ z zʲ ʐ a e i ɨ o u

East Slavic
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Among Kurds

Kurdish communities of the former Soviet Union often use Russian as a second language, alongside Kurmanji.

to verify · Haig and Öpengin. Kurdish: A critical research overview. Kurdish Studies 2 (2).

Speakers

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Year
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Source
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Status
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1 course
1
Democracy and the rule of lawKCO-CIV-01 · Open for enrolment on study.kurds.global
Test of Russian as a Foreign Language (TORFL)exam · Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation · Six levels matched to the CEFR levels.
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