Eurasia · ISO 639-3 rus · Glottocode russ1263
Russian
On a source-bound basis, Russian appears as a language of the Indo-European family with a reference point in Eurasia; its endangerment assessment is not endangered and its likely script Cyrillic.
- Language family
- Indo-European
- Likely script
- Cyrillic (Cyrl)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Eurasia
- Source country codes
- BY · CN · EE · FI · GE · KG · KP · KZ · LT · LV · MD · MN · NO · PL · RO · RU · SJ · TM · UA · UZ
- Reference point
- 59.000, 50.000
Open research question
Which research describes the relationship between everyday use, language shift, and transmission initiatives for Russian?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.