Country Info

Russia Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 141,831,216 people (100% of Russia) that can read or write at least one language.

36 Writing Systems used in Russia

Russian (Cyrillic)

ru-cyrl
language code
133,722,520
people

Tatar (Cyrillic)

tt-cyrl
language code
1,991,611
people

Bashkir (Cyrillic)

ba-cyrl
language code
1,849,353
people

Chuvash (Cyrillic)

cv-cyrl
language code
1,849,353
people

Armenian (Armenian)

hy-armn
language code
1,194,967
people

Chechen (Cyrillic)

ce-cyrl
language code
938,902
people

Avaric (Cyrillic)

av-cyrl
language code
554,806
people

Udmurt (Cyrillic)

udm-cyrl
language code
540,580
people

Mari (Cyrillic)

chm-cyrl
language code
526,354
people

Ossetic (Cyrillic)

os-cyrl
language code
455,225
people

Sakha (Cyrillic)

sah-cyrl
language code
455,225
people

Kabardian (Cyrillic)

kbd-cyrl
language code
440,999
people

Erzya (Cyrillic)

myv-cyrl
language code
440,999
people

Dargwa (Cyrillic)

dar-cyrl
language code
369,870
people

Buriat (Cyrillic)

bua-cyrl
language code
312,967
people

Moksha (Cyrillic)

mdf-cyrl
language code
298,741
people

Kumyk (Cyrillic)

kum-cyrl
language code
284,516
people

Komi (Cyrillic)

kv-cyrl
language code
256,064
people

Lezghian (Cyrillic)

lez-cyrl
language code
256,064
people

Karachay-Balkar (Cyrillic)

krc-cyrl
language code
241,838
people

Ingush (Cyrillic)

inh-cyrl
language code
227,612
people

Tuvinian (Cyrillic)

tyv-cyrl
language code
184,935
people

Azerbaijani (Cyrillic)

az-cyrl
language code
132,299
people

Adyghe (Cyrillic)

ady-cyrl
language code
125,187
people

Karelian (Latin)

krl-latn
language code
116,651
people

Lak (Cyrillic)

lbe-cyrl
language code
110,961
people

Komi-Permyak (Cyrillic)

koi-cyrl
language code
64,016
people

Western Mari (Cyrillic)

mrj-cyrl
language code
29,874
people

Southern Altai (Cyrillic)

alt-cyrl
language code
19,916
people

Finnish (Latin)

fi-latn
language code
17,070
people

Serbian (Latin)

sr-latn
language code
4,979
people

Veps (Latin)

vep-latn
language code
3,556
people

Mongolian (Cyrillic)

mn-cyrl
language code
2,133
people

Ingrian (Latin)

izh-latn
language code
142
people

Church Slavic (Cyrillic)

cu-cyrl
language code
0
people

Votic (Latin)

vot-latn
language code
0
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR