Привет!
say it: “pree-VYET”
Russian
in its own words: русский
- Speakers
- 255 million
- Family
- Indo-European – Slavic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Belarus, People's Republic of China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia and 8 more
Fun fact
It is written in Cyrillic. The letter “Я” looks like a backwards R, but it is read “ya” – and on its own it means “I”.