Category: LanguagePart of speech: nounDifficulty: Common
язык
/yazyk/Roman
English meaning: Language
Definition
A system of human communication. Russian is spoken by 150 million native speakers and is an official language of the UN, written in the Cyrillic script. Russian was the dominant language of the Soviet Union and influenced languages across Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Russian language and literature was highly influential in India during the Cold War era — Soviet-published books in Russian were widely distributed in India.
Example
“Русский язык является одним из шести официальных языков ООН.”
In English: “Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.”
Literary Heritage
“Поэзия есть сознание своей правоты.”
/Poeziya yest' soznaniye svoyey pravoty./
“Poetry is the awareness of one's own rightness.”
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Language information
- Language
- Русский
- Russian
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Family
- Slavic
- Speakers
- 260M