.what launduages do they speak in russia?

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aanstalokaniskiodov_nikolai

Mostly Russian until you get up north by Finland (then it's Finnish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, and sometimes Polish), over by Mongolia (then it's Mongolian, Mongolian dialects, and some Chinese), over by Kazakhstan east of the Caspian Sea (then it's Kazakh, Uighur, Kyrg, Arabic, and other obscure native languages), or over in the Caucasus Mountain region (then it's Ossetian, Armenian, Georgian, Karachay-Balkar, Tat, Azerbaijani/Azeri, Kumyk, and other Turkic languages). However, within many of these languages, you will find even more variations and divisions. For example, I am an Ossetian. There are three dialects: Jassic, Digor, and Iron/Ironau. Digor and Ironau are common in the Caucasus region, but Jassic is not common anymore. It was spoken in Hungary. Anyways, back to Russia... In much of Russia, you will find that many people speak Russian in addition to one of these languages. And even then, you will find that many Russians learn English or German in school.

herbie36f

DUH!!!!!! Russian of course.....

radu3s

depend wher you are ...if you are in European part there you can find some Polish,latium,Lituanium<latvium,Norwegie... you are in south part of Russia .......there you can find the Mongolian, Kazahstan,Chinese.....Ukrainean...and in nort part the koreaskyii and Nienet,iakuta,ciukce

jayjay

Russian, Czech, Chinese, Arabic, Indian, Romanian etc.

canadianphatkid

english french spanish duh

supermodel_in_ohio

Russian, Arabic (southern Russia).......??

a_bc249

Mostly Russian, except when you are near the borders of countries that boarders Russia, like Finland, you get people who speaks Finnish, Armenian for people close to Armenia and Chinese or Korean for people near the Far East.

boz803

Mostly Russian. There are also pockets within the country, away from the West, where indigenous languages are still spoken. Try to search for Tatars or the Sami... or just in general for indigenous Siberian tribes... you'll be surprised at just how many languages exist within the borders of the Russian Federation.

joey6062001

There are many endangered languages in Russia. Some are considered to be near extinction and put on the list of endangered languages, and some may have gone extinct since data was last reported. On the other hand, some languages may survive even with few speakers.

Some languages have doubtful data, like Serbian whose information in the Ethnologue is based on the 1959 census.

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Languages near extinction
Most numbers are according to Michael Krauss, 1995. Given the time that has passed, languages with extremely few speakers (such as Kerek) might be extinct today.

Ainu
Akkala Sami (8)
Enets (70)
Karagas (25 to 30)
Kerek (2)
Mednyy (10)
Orok (30 to 82)
Ter Sami (6)
Udege (100)
Yugh (2 or 3)
Northern Yukaghir (30 to 150)
Vod (25)
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Other endangered languages
Chukchi
Chulym
Erzya
Ingrian
Ludian
Moksha
Udmurt
Veps
Votic

Kylene

Russian, most of all, but there are more..

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