Russian

Native Speakers: 154 Million

Russian comes in the eighth notch with roughly 154 million native speakers and most of the Russian places use Mandarin even in the smallest area competing with it. It is one of the leading languages of the United Nations. Russian to English translation services are estimated to be the most important translation services in the field of internet marketing.

Famed for its inscrutable grammar and quite a lovely Cyrillic script, it remains one of the six languages spoken in the United Nations and produced the literary likes of Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Pushkin. Russian is the most-spoken Slavic language in the world. It is an official language in Russian, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It’s related closely to Ukrainian and Belarusian and more distantly related to languages like Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Slovak, and Bosnian.

A few facts about the Russian language:

• Russian is the largest language in Europe in terms of native speakers.
• It’s written using the Cyrillic alphabet--another script you can learn in Scripts!