BFSU LANGUAGE ENTRY
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РусскийAt BFSU, Russian is among 101 approved foreign languages, connecting the university’s multilingual education with the places and cultures where the language is used.
Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan
- NATIVE NAME
- Русский
- WRITING SYSTEM
- Cyrillic script
- AT BFSU
- One of 101 languages
LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD
See where Russian connects communities.
LANGUAGE REACH
Russian is spoken across 22 countries and territories.
No. 9 of 101 languages · No. 6 by territory count
Europe
10UkrainePolandBelarusGermanyLithuaniaBulgariaLatviaEstoniaMoldovaFinland
Central Asia
07KazakhstanUzbekistanKyrgyzstanArmeniaTajikistanTurkmenistanGeorgia
East Asia
01Mainland China
Middle East & North Africa
01Israel
The Americas
02United StatesCanada
Other areas
01Russia
From daily conversation in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan to education, literature and media, Russian carries the accents, vocabulary and expressions of different communities.
Population and distribution figures use Unicode CLDR 48 ↗ estimates of people able to use the language, including first- and second-language users. Recorded reach counts territories with an estimated community of at least 10,000; figures are comparative, not live counts.
AT BFSU
A language opens a wider view of the world.
BFSU places Russian within a multilingual programme that brings language study together with literature, history, society and regional knowledge.
The language is commonly written in Cyrillic script; its literature, media and everyday expressions carry the experiences of the communities that use it.
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