Languages of Russia

Languages of Russia
Languages of Russia
	Memorial in Vyborg in Finnish, Russian, Swedish and German.
Official	Russian
Semi-official	Thirty-five languages
Minority	Dozens of languages of the Indo-European, Northeast Caucasian, Northwest Caucasian, Uralic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic and Paleosiberian language families
Foreign	13–20% have foreign language knowledge; English (71% out of all foreign language speakers or 15% of the population; 30% to some degree.; German (16%); Ukrainian (9%); Azerbaijani, French & Turkish (3%); Others (20%);
Signed	Russian Sign Language
Keyboard layout	Russian keyboard;

Of all the languages of Russia, Russian, the most widely spoken language, is the only official language at the national level. There are 25 other official languages, which are used in different regions of Russia. These languages include; Ossetic, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Buryat, Kalmyk, Chechen, Ingush, Abaza, Adyghe, Tsakhur, Lezgian, Cherkess, Kabardian, Altai, Bashkir, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Karachay-Balkar, Khakas, Nogai, Tatar, Tuvan, Yakut, Erzya, Komi, Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Karelian, Moksha, Veps, Ingrian, Ludian, and Udmurt. There are over 100 minority languages spoken in Russia today.