Привет!
say it: “pree-VYET”
Russian
in its own words: русский
- Speakers
- 255 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Slavic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Belarus, People's Republic of China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia and 8 more
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Official language
- Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Ukraine (de facto)
Fun fact
It is written in the Cyrillic alphabet. The letter “Я” is read [ja] and on its own forms the pronoun “I”.