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This article deals with Russian as it relates to NationStates. For more general information, see the Wikipedia article on this subject.
Russian (русский язык /'ruski jɪ'zɨk/) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages.
Russian belongs to the group of Indo-European languages, and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, including English, French, and Irish. Written examples are extant from the 10th century onwards.
While it preserves much of its ancient synthetic-inflexional structure and a Common Slavonic word base, modern Russian shares a large stock of the international vocabulary for politics, science, and technology. A language of political importance in the twentieth century, Russian is one of the official languages of the United Nations.
Taraskovyan Russian
Russian is an official language of Tarasovka, where ethnic Russians form the majority of the national population. Taraskovyan Russian, as it is unofficially called, retains Slavonic etymology for the words that in “Overseas Russian” (as the universally known Russian is called in Tarasovka) have been overtime replaced by foreign equivalents. Some grammar points differ from the “Overseas Russian” and are actually similar to the grammar as it was used in Russia before the Bolshevik language reforms of 1917. As of now, the Taraskovyan Academy claims that Taraskovyan Russian is the true Russian, whilst everything else is just dialects. This stance is, however, becoming less and less popular as the language becomes increasingly encumbered with irrelevant material and rules and calls from the intellectual circles for harmonisation with “Overseas Russian” are growing in importance.
NOTE. Russian is written in a non-Latin script. All examples below are in the Cyrillic alphabet, with transcriptions in SAMPA (without regard to the reduction of unstressed vowels).
See also: Constantian (language)
