Wikipedia:Wikipedia in languages of Russia
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This is a list of Wikipedias written in languages of Russia. List is very incomplete yet.
| Group | Language (links lead to sections) |
script base |
denoted as |
Found | Articles[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russian | cyr | ru: Русский | ≈2002 | 217 801 | |
| Turkic languages | Tatar | lat | tt: Tatarça (Татарча) |
? | 4 031 |
| Chuvash | cyr | cv: Чăваш | ? | 6 841 | |
| Languages of Caucasus |
Ossetic | cyr | os: Иронау | ? | 1 871 |
| Finno-Ugric languages | Udmurt | cyr | udm: Удмурт кыл | ? | 307 |
[edit] Russian
Russian language is the state language of the Russian Federation and the most spoken language in the country. Russian Wikipedia contains more articles than all another wikipedias in languages of Russia. Since almost all residents of Russia understand Russian language, it's Russian Wikipedia which is used as a backbone for constructing Wikipedia in other languages. Infoboxes, templates, geographical caterogization etc. are ported to other language editions from Russian one.
[edit] Tatar
Tatar language is the second spoken language in Russia. That Wikipedia uses Zamanälif script, which is not recognized by federal authorities of Russia.
[edit] Chuvash
The Wikipedia in Chuvash language has the second article count among wikipedias in languages of Russia.
[edit] Ossetic
Wikipedia in Ossetic language.
[edit] Udmurt
Wikipedia in Udmurt language.

