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Russian

East Slavic language
Language language Q7737
Russian
Бурцов Василий Федерович · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

Russian is a language[1]. Russian ranks in the top 0.036% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38,951 views/month, #2 of 5,611).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Russia[3], Germany[4], Kazakhstan[5], Israel[6], Mongolia[7], United States[8], Canada[9], Belarus[10], Kyrgyzstan[11], Azerbaijan[12], Estonia[13], Georgia[14], Latvia[15], Lithuania[16]
  • Instance of: modern language[17], natural language[18]
  • Main regulatory text: Q28840330[19]
  • Subclass of: East Slavic[20]
  • Writing system: Cyrillic script[21]
  • Commons category: Russian language[22]
  • Wikimedia language code: ru[23]
  • Significant event: Russian spelling reform of 1918[24], reforms of Russian orthography[25], Decree of the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR on the introduction of new orthography[26], Q19151554[27], language policy in Ukraine[28], Second South Slavic influence[29], Russian Cyrillic (Civil Script)[30]
  • Official website: http://ruslang.ru/[31]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Russian language[32]
  • Language regulatory body: Russian Language Institute[33]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 154,000,000[34], 171,428,900[35], 110,000,000[36], 110,440,620[37], 153,919,510[38]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Wiktionary:About Russian[39]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[40], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[41], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[42], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[43], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[44]

Why It Matters

Russian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] Russian is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]

Russian has been cited as an influence by English[47], a natural language[48], in American Samoa[49]; Esperanto[50], a planned language[51], in Esperantujo[52], founded in 1887[53]; and Globasa[54], an international auxiliary language[55], founded in 2019[56].

FAQs

Who did Russian influence?

Russian has been cited as an influence by English[47], Esperanto[50], and Globasa[54].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Archaeology & Language. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . ruslang.ru. Retrieved . ruslang.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . Ethnologue. archive.ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . ethnologue.com. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . ethnologue.com. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [50] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [54] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [51] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [53] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [55] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [56] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [45] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [46] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 888
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 888, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7326820|Russian (#7326820)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 13d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 321
    Deaf movie database language id → russian
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'abstract', 'ady', 'af', 'als', 'alt', 'am', 'ami', 'an', 'ang', 'anp', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Deaf movie database language id: russian, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/225055126|russian (#225055126)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7269|‎Deaf Movie"
  3. 7w ago · YoshiRulz · 2026-08-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Linguistic typology → subject–verb–object, nominative–accusative language, stress-timed language +6
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Linguistic typology: adjective-noun"
  4. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → physical chemistry
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  5. 10w ago · Penguin112358 · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Linguistic typology → subject–verb–object, nominative–accusative language, stress-timed language +6
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Linguistic typology: zero copula"
  6. 12w ago · Shisma · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id → memory-beta:Russian_language
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Fandom article id: memory-beta:Russian_language"
  7. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2qeCyy
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  8. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → russian-language
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: russian-language, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289957116|russian language (#289957116)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
  9. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001645-rustina
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001645-rustina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  10. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 7643, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  11. 24w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Umls cui → C0035967
    Nci thesaurus id → C123790
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Umls cui: C0035967"
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