Owing to its substantial political influence throughout the 20th century, Russian has garnered recognition as an official language by the United Nations, solidifying its status as the seventh most widely spoken language on a global scale.
It shares classification with the Belarusian and Ukrainian languages. This language finds its roots within the Indo-European language family and specifically resides within the East Slavic Languages subset, a category of the broader Slavic Languages group. Russian, also known as русский язык (pronounced roos-kee yah-zuhk), holds a prominent position among the Slavic languages, encompassing an extensive geographic expanse.
