{"id":11759,"date":"2019-06-06T07:13:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T07:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=11759"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:56:56","slug":"10-fun-facts-for-russian-language-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/10-fun-facts-for-russian-language-day\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Fun Facts for Russian Language Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 6 marks Russian Language Day<\/a> (\u0414\u0435\u043d\u044c \u0440\u0443\u0301\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0430\u0301<\/strong>). This date was chosen because that’s when Alexander Pushkin<\/a> (\u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430\u0301\u043d\u0434\u0440 \u041f\u0443\u0301\u0448\u043a\u0438\u043d<\/strong>) was born \u2014 a writer and poet credited with shaping contemporary Russian (\u0441\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u0301\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0440\u0443\u0301\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u0301\u043a<\/strong>) by blending the “high” literary genres with the vernacular. To mark this occasion, let me share ten fun facts about today’s Russian language.<\/p>\n

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Russian Online<\/h2>\n
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  1. W3Techs<\/a> report that, as of June 2019, Russian was the second most-used language on the web, at around 6%. As expected, English was in the first place, at close to 54%.<\/li>\n
  2. At the time of writing this post, there were 1 548 000 Wikipedia articles<\/a> written in Russian.<\/li>\n
  3. As of 2019, 68% of Russians said they used the Internet daily<\/a>, and a further 10% used it several times a week.<\/li>\n
  4. According to Alexa<\/a>, the most popular websites in Russia were YouTube, the search engine Yandex<\/a> (\u042f\u0301\u043d\u0434\u0435\u043a\u0441<\/strong>), and the social network Vk.com, formerly known as Vkontakte<\/a> (“\u0412\u043a\u043e\u043d\u0442\u0430\u0301\u043a\u0442\u0435<\/strong>,” which translates to “in touch”).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Russian IRL<\/span><\/h2>\n
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    1. As of 2012, there were 265 million speakers of Russian<\/a> in the world, 110 million of who used it as their first language.<\/li>\n
    2. The US Foreign Language Institute<\/a> places Russian in Category III of its language difficulty ranking. That means that a typical speaker of English will need 44 weeks or 1,100 hours to reach professional working proficiency in the language.<\/li>\n
    3. Despite spanning vast territories, Russian does not have significant dialectal variation<\/a> due to, among other causes, mass migration (sometimes forced!), and centralized educational, publishing, and broadcasting standards. In other words, while regional vocabulary and pronunciation quirks do exist, it is much harder to pin a person speaking Russian to a specific geographic area than one might expect.<\/li>\n
    4. The language is codified by the V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute<\/a> of the Russian Academy of Sciences (\u0418\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0442\u0443\u0301\u0442 \u0440\u0443\u0301\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0430\u0301 \u0438\u0301\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0438 \u0412. \u0412. \u0412\u0438\u043d\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0301\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u0420\u0410\u041d<\/strong>), based in Moscow. The institute monitors new developments in the language, provides guidance and reference, maintains the Russian National Corpus<\/a> (\u041d\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u0301\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u0301\u0440\u043f\u0443\u0441 \u0440\u0443\u0301\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0430<\/strong>), and publishes several journals.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      <\/a>Russian by Law<\/h2>\n
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      1. Russian enjoys official status<\/a> in Russia (\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0301\u044f<\/strong>), Kazakhstan (\u041a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0445\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0301\u043d<\/strong>), Belarus (\u0411\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0301\u0441\u044c<\/strong>), and Kyrgyzstan (\u041a\u044b\u0440\u0433\u044b\u0437\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0301\u043d<\/strong>), and is spoken in several other countries outside Russia<\/a>.<\/li>\n
      2. Russian is also an official language of several international organizations, including the International Criminal Court (\u041c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443\u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0301\u0434\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0443\u0433\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0301\u0432\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0443\u0434<\/strong>), International Monetary Fund (\u041c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443\u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0301\u0434\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0432\u0430\u043b\u044e\u0301\u0442\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0444\u043e\u043d\u0434<\/strong>), and the United Nations (\u041e\u0440\u0433\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0301\u0446\u0438\u044f \u041e\u0431\u044a\u0435\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0451\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u041d\u0430\u0301\u0446\u0438\u0439<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Did you learn anything new from this list? What fun fact would you add to it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"people

        June 6 marks Russian Language Day (\u0414\u0435\u043d\u044c \u0440\u0443\u0301\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0430\u0301). This date was chosen because that’s when Alexander Pushkin (\u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430\u0301\u043d\u0434\u0440 \u041f\u0443\u0301\u0448\u043a\u0438\u043d) was born \u2014 a writer and poet credited with shaping contemporary Russian (\u0441\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u0301\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0440\u0443\u0301\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u0301\u043a) by blending the “high” literary genres with the vernacular. To mark this occasion, let me share ten fun facts about…<\/p>\n

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