Other than Russian, there are over 100 minority languages spoken by various ethnical groups in Russian Federation. Beside languages that are officially spoken in other 14 countries which were once member of the former USSR, CeLT has recording archive or data of 11 languages that are largely exclusively spoken in the Russian Federation. Here below is the list.
Language | Language Family | Main Using Area |
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Bashkir | Turkic Languages | Bashkortostan |
Buryat | Mongolic Languages | the Republic of Buryatia |
Chuvash | Turkic Languages | the Republic of Chuvashia |
Evenki | Tungus Languages | the Republic of Sakha |
Kalmyk | Mongolic Languages | the Republic of Kalmykia |
Mordvin | Uralic Languages | the Republic of Mordovia |
Ostyak(Khanty) | Uralic Languages | Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug |
Tatar | Turkic Languages | the Republic of Tatarstan |
Votyak (Udmurt) | Uralic Languages | the Republic of Udmurtia |
Yakut | Turkic Languages | the Republic of Sakha |
Zyrian (Komi) | Uralic Languages | the Republic of Komi |