Russian

Russian

Русский
154M speakers · Indo-European Slavic · Cyrillic
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Written in the cyrillic script. Uses SVO word order with fusional morphology. Notable features include 3 grammatical genders, 6 noun cases, a politeness/honorific system, pronoun dropping.

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Official in 4 countries

RussiaBelarusKazakhstanKyrgyzstan

7,649,448 km²

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Typology

Word order SVO
Adjective before noun
Numeral before noun
Adposition preposition
Def. article no
Indef. article no
Pro-drop no
Tonal no
Gender yes
Noun cases yes

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