The closest language to Russian is probably either Ukranian, Belarus, Bulgarian, or Serbian.
Ukrainian, Belarussian, and Rusyn (arguably a dialect) are the closest languages, linguistically speaking, to Russian. They are East Slavic languages. Other Slavic languages are Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Bosnian.
Czech is the language of the country Czech Republic. It comes in the Slavik family of languages. It uses roman characters with a few accents, but is closer to Russian in terms of words and pronunciations.
targeted the empire's non-Russian population emphasized the use of the Russian language
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Polish, Russian and Czech are all examples of the Slavic language group, which is a subgroup of Indo-European languages. The Slavic languages are the most widely spoken language subgroups in Europe, with 315 million people speaking some form of it.
Belarusian is considered to be the closest language to Ukrainian due to their shared East Slavic roots and historical connections. However, Russian also shares some similarities with Ukrainian but to a lesser extent.
Russian is a Cyrillic language.
No, Russian is not a Latin language. Latin is a member of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, while Russian is a Slavic language belonging to the Slavic branch.
The following languages are related to Russian:UkrainianBelarusianBulgarianPolishCzechSlovakSerbianCroatianBosnianSlovenianMontenegrinMacedonian
They are both Slavic languages and use the same alphabet, Cyrillic, which helps a lot in understanding words. Also Bulgarian is the closest language to old church slavonic, now extinct, from which a lot of the Russian language is sourced from. As an estimate, probably about 80 per cent of words in Bulgarian also exist in Russian. In the rush to independence and during the Turkish occupation Bulgaria incorporated many Russian words into their language and bought the language even closer to Russian. The grammar and pronouncation is totally different in both languages so it is almost impossible for them to understand each other. Bulgarian pronouncation is clear and sharp, but Russian is softly spoken.
Russian is in the Balto-Slavic language family.
The Russian immigrants spoke Russian.
Russian Language: РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫК.Pronunciation: Russkiy (u as in the oo in moose) yizyk (y as in the i in igloo).
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The Russian language equivalent of Bernard is Владимир (Vladimir).
Yes, Russian is an Indo-European language belonging to the Slavic family.
Dictionary of the Russian Language - Ozhegov - was created in 1949.