Russia+-+Language

Russian Language · Speak Russian · Russian is a Slavic language · Lot of countries outside of Russia speak Russian Total speakers- primary language: about 164 million secondary language: 114 million (2006) [|[1]  ] total: 278 million · Indo-European language · A quarter of the worlds scientific lit. is written in Russian · Russian writing is a form of Cyrillic Official Language of · Russia · Belarus · Kazakhstan · Kyrgyzstan · Moldova · Crimea · Abkhazia · South Ossetia · United Nations · IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency located in Austria) Russian is hard to learn · Only declared the official language in 1990

· Many different Dialects /a/ || [|Б] /b/ || [|В] /v/ || [|Г] /ɡ/ || [|Д] /d/ || [|Е] /je/ || [|Ё] /jo/ || [|Ж] /ʐ/ || [|З] /z/ || [|И] /i/ || [|Й] /j/ || /k/ || [|Л] /l/ || [|М] /m/ || [|Н] /n/ || [|О] /o/ || [|П] /p/ || [|Р] /r/ || [|С] /s/ || [|Т] /t/ || [|У] /u/ || [|Ф] /f/ || /h/ || [|Ц] /ts/ || [|Ч] /tɕ/ || [|Ш] /ʂ/ || [|Щ] /ɕɕ/ || [|Ъ] /-/ || [|Ы] [ɨ] || [|Ь] /-/ || [|Э] /e/ || [|Ю] /ju/ || [|Я] /ja/ || ^ Russian letters and what they sound like · Over 163,000 words
 * [|А]
 * [|К]
 * [|Х]

I got my information from [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language]