Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
42
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46
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National Language
Russia
Lithuania
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Poland
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Latvian
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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