Opravy

Languages in Russia

• Today I’d like to talk about the languages are used in Russia.

• I was born in Russia and my mother tongue is Russian and for most people in my country as well.

• Russian is official language and it is used in the government, media, and education.

• In addition, Russian is the 6-th in the list about the number of speakers.

• However, it isn’t the only one language used in Russia.

• We also have many others languages in the country.

• Some of them are very similar with Russian and some are totally different.

• Nowadays in Russian Federation there are more than 193 nationalities which speak in about 277 languages and dialects.

• It is interesting to notice that in Russia we have more languages than nationalities and some of language have less than 100 native speakers.

• These languages can be divided into several groups like Turkic, Slavic, Mongolian ,  Dagestan ,  Finno-Ugric.

• I should like to get a nearer view of some of them.

• For a start the Turkic group includes Tataric, Baskir, Chuvash ,Turkmen and etc. The almost all are spoken in the East side of the country and originate from Turkic language.

• The biggest group is the Slavic and it consists of Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian.

• Some regions even have mix from all of them.

• They are most widely-spoken in the European part of the Russia.

• Habitually that people from the Slavic group can understand each other.

• Likewise some European languages came into common use in Russia such English, Spanish, French and German.

• Of course, all of them is the influence of the history.

• To finish I’d like to add some words about slang in Russian what local people use in dairy life.

• One interesting thing is that we use a lot in our speech diminutives and call many thigs like it suppose to be very small and cute.

• For example a dog in Russian is “собака”[sabaka] but we very often say “собачка” [sabachka] what means doggie .

• Our culture is rich in obscene words as well and surely I don’t recommend you to use them but to know their meaning is important if you want to participate and to be in any conversation.