Russian language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_languageRussian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family. It is a descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus', a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid 13th centuries. From the point of view of spoken language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian and Belarusian, the other three languages in the East Slavic branch. In many places in eastern and southern Ukraine and throughout Belarus, these languages are spoken interchangeably, and in cer…
Slavic vocabulary - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Slavic_vocabularyThe following list is a comparison of basic Proto- Slavic vocabulary and the corresponding reflexes in the modern languages, for assistance in understanding the discussion in Proto-Slavic and History of the Slavic languages. The word list is based on the Swadesh word list, developed by the linguist Morris Swadesh, a tool to study the evolution ...
Alaskan Russian dialect - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Russian_dialectAlaskan Russian, known locally as Old Russian, is a dialect of Russian, influenced by Alutiiq, spoken by elderly people of mixed Russian–Alutiiq descent on Kodiak Island and in Ninilchik (Kenai Peninsula), Alaska.It has been isolated from other varieties of Russian for over a century. Kodiak Russian was natively spoken on Afognak Strait until the Great Alaskan earthquake and …
Russian Wikipedia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Russian_WikipediaThe Russian Wikipedia ( Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized : Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of December 2021, it has 1,778,148 articles. It was started on 11 May 2001. In October 2015 it became the sixth-largest Wikipedia by the number of articles.
Vocabulary - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VocabularyA vocabulary is a set of familiar words within a person's language.A vocabulary, usually developed with age, serves as a useful and fundamental tool for communication and acquiring knowledge.Acquiring an extensive vocabulary is one of the largest challenges in learning a second language
Russian language - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Russian_languageRussian ( русский язык, tr. russkiy yazyk) is an East Slavic language native to Russia in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of four living East Slavic languages, and also part of the larger Balto-Slavic branch. Russian is an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan ...
Russian grammar - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Russian_grammarRussian grammar. Russian grammar employs an Indo-European inflexional structure, with considerable adaptation. Russian has a highly inflectional morphology, particularly in nominals (nouns, pronouns, adjectives and numerals). Russian literary syntax is a combination of a Church Slavonic heritage, a variety of loaned and adopted constructs, and ...
Russenorsk - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RussenorskVocabulary Corpora of Russenorsk consist of lists of individual words and phrases as well as records of dialogues compiled by linguists such as Just Knud Qvigstad. The corpora include c. 400 words, about half of those only appear once in the records (so-called hapax legomena ), therefore, the vocabulary contained only 150-200 core words.
Bulgarian vocabulary - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_vocabularyFrench vocabulary contribution to the Bulgarian language totals around 15% and Ottoman Turkish (along with Arabic and Persian) totalled around 14%, whereas loanwords from Russian accounted for 10% of the borrowings. Lesser but still significant influence was exerted by Italian (around 4%), German (around 4%) and English (around 2%).
Russian alphabet - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Russian_alphabetAlthough Russian word stress is often unpredictable and can fall on different syllables in different forms of the same word, the diacritic is used only in dictionaries, children's books, resources for foreign-language learners, the defining entry (in bold) in articles on Russian Wikipedia, or on minimal pairs distinguished only by stress (for ...