Languages in Russia
The Official Language
| Language Name | Region | Population | Supported by DBT? |
|---|
| Russian | Russia | 118,000k | Yes |
Official Minority Languages
Russia is divided into a number of different kinds of sub-divisions. The most important are the 46 oblasts (provinces) and the 22 republics.
Republics often have a high percentage of non-Russian ethnic groups. Some languages have an official status in one or more regions.
A language may have significance by its population, or by how it dominates a specific republic.
| Language Name | Region | Population | % of region | Supported by DBT? |
|---|
| Abaza | Karachay-Cherkessia | 34k | 8% | No |
| Adyghe | Adygea | 125k | 26% | No |
| Aghul | Dagestan | 17k | 1% | No |
| Altai | the Altai Republic | 29k | 34% | No |
| Avar | Dagestan | 556k | 29% | No |
| Azerbaijani | Dagestan | 3,000k | 5% | Yes |
| Bashkir | Bashkortostan | 1,800k | 30% | No * |
| Buryat | Buryatia | 318k | 30% | No |
| Chechen | Chechnya | 944k | 95% | No * |
| Cherkess (Kabardian) | Karachay-Cherkessia | 443k | 12% | No |
| Chuvash | Chuvashia | 1,800k | 67% | Yes |
| Dargwa | Dagestan | 365k | 17% | No |
| Erzya | Mordovia | 440k | 40% | No |
| Ingush | Ingushetia | 230k | 94% | No * |
| Kabardian | Kabardino-Balkaria | 443k | 57% | No |
| Kalmyk | Kalmykia | 174k | 57% | No |
| Karachay-Balkar | Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia | 236k | 41% | No |
| Khakas | Khakassia | 65k | 12% | No |
| Komi | the Komi Republic | 262k | 23% | No |
| Kumyk | Dagestan | 282k | 15% | No |
| Lak | Dagestan | 112k | 6% | No |
| Lezgi | Dagestan | 257k | 13% | No |
| Mari | Mari El | 590k | 44% | No |
| Moksha | Mordovia | 296k | 40% | No |
| Nogai | Dagestan and Karachay-Cherkessia | 67k | 2% | No |
| Ossetic | North Ossetia Alania | 400k | 65% | No |
| Rutul | Dagestan | 20k | 1% | No |
| Tabasaran | Dagestan | 95k | 4% | No |
| Tatar | Tatarstan (and Crimea) | 464k | 53% | Yes |
| Tsakhur | Dagestan | 7k | 0.3% | No |
| Tuv0n | Tuva | 180k | 82% | No * |
| Udmurt | Udmurtia | 550k | 28% | Yes |
| Ukrainian | Crimea | 600k | 24% | Yes |
| Yakut | the Sakha Republic | 363k | 40% | No |
* We are judging the chances of being asked to produce a translator for DBT on two numbers, the total population of speakers within Russia,
and the percentage of speakers of this language in its home Region. For example, Ingush has a modest population, but 94% of the region are
speakers. The asterisk (*) means we are likely to be asked to work on this language.
Unofficial Languages
| Language Name | Supported by DBT? |
|---|
| Armenian | Yes |
| Azerbaijani | Yes |
| Belarusian | Yes |
| Czech | Yes |
| Estonian | Yes |
| Finnish | Yes |
| French | Yes |
| Georgian | Yes |
| German | Yes |
| Kurdish | Yes |
| Kyrgyz | Yes |
| Latvian | Yes |
| Lithuanian | Yes |
| Persian | Yes |
| Polish | Yes |
| Romanian | Yes |
| Turkish | Yes |
| Turkmen | Yes |
| Uzbek | Yes |