List of languages of Russia

This is a list of languages used in Russia. Russian is the only official language at the national level and there are other 35 official languages, which are used in different regions of Russia.[1] There are approximately 190 indigenous languages in Russia. The ten largest of these, which do not hold official state status outside the Russian Federation, are listed below in descending order of the number of speakers: Tatar, Chechen, Bashkir, Chuvash, Avar, Kabardian, Dargwa, Ossetian, Kumyk and Lezgin, according to the 2010 Russian census[2].

Official language

Languages with 1,000,000 or more speakers[3]

Languages with 100,000 or more speakers[3]

Languages with 10,000 or more speakers

Languages with 1,000 or more speakers

Languages with fewer than 1,000 speakers

Languages with 100,000 or more speakers

Languages with 10,000 or more speakers

Languages with 1,000 or more speakers

Languages with fewer than 1,000 speakers

Other

Language families

A total of 14 language families are native to Russia:[5]

References

  1. ↑ "What Languages Are Spoken in Russia?". WorldAtlas. 1 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2010. Распространение языков". Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
  3. 1 2 3 "Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2010. Распространение языков". Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
  4. ↑ Владение украинским языком в России в разрезе этнических групп / Завьялов А. В. Социальная адаптация украинских иммигрантов : монография / А. В. Завьялов. – Иркутск : Изд-во ИГУ, 2017. – 179 с.
  5. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2019). "Glottolog". 4.1. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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