Languages and peoples of Russia

Last modified: 2005-05-07 by antónio martins
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• Russia
• Russian subdivisions (list and clickable map)
• Russian unofficial regional and ethnical flags
• Flags of Linguistic Groups

• Geografiâ Rossii. Drofa: Moskva, 1997
• The Ethnologue on-line database. Summer Institute of Linguistics
• “A Fortress of Languages” National Geographic Magazine

• OFFICIAL language in the whole Federation
• Official language in at least one of the Federation “subjects”
• Language recognized by Soviet/Russian authorities but not official in any Federation “subject”
• language not recognized by Soviet/Russian authorities.
• Language recognized solely as variant of another

1. Indo-European
   1. Slavic
      1. East
         1. Belorusian: Recognized but not official. (Official in Belarus)
         2. RUSSIAN: Official language of the Federation.
         3. Ukrainian: Recognized but not official. (Official in Ukraine)
      2. South
         1. Eastern
            1. Bulgarian: Recognized but not official. (Official in Bulgaria)
            2. Slavonic (old church): Liturgic use only.
         2. Western
            1. serbo-croatian: Not recognized. (Official in Yugoslavia)
      3. West
         1. Czech-Slovak
            1. slovak: Not recognized. (Official in Slovakia)
         2. Lechitic
            1. Polish: Recognized but not official. (Official in Poland)
   2. Baltic
      1. East
         1. Latvian: Recognized but not official. (Official in Latvia)
         2. Lithuanian: Recognized but not official. (Official in Lithuania)
   3. Germanic
      1. West
         1. Continental
            1. High
               1. German (standard): Recognized but not official. (Official in Germany and Austria)
               2. Yiddish: Official in the Jewish Autonomous Region (and in Israel)
            2. Low
               1. Plautdietsch: Considered as variant of german (standard)
   4. Romance
      1. Eastern
         1. North
            1. Rumanian (moldavian): Recognized but not official. (Official in Romania and Moldavia)
   5. Greek
      1. Attic
         1. Greek: Recognized but not official. (Official in Greece)
   6. Indo-Iranian
      1. Iranian
         1. Eastern
            1. Northeastern
               1. Osetin: Official in North Ossetia
         2. Western
            1. North