Languages of Russia

Languages of Russia
Languages of Russia
	Memorial in Vyborg in Finnish, Russian, Swedish and German.
Official	Russian
Semi-official	Thirty-five languages
Minority	Dozens of languages of the Indo-European, Northeast Caucasian, Northwest Caucasian, Uralic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic and Paleosiberian language families
Foreign	13–15% have foreign language knowledge; English (80% out of all foreign language speakers or 11% of the population; 30% to some degree.; German (16%); French (4%); Turkic (2%);
Signed	Russian Sign Language
Keyboard layout	Russian keyboard;

Of all the languages of Russia, Russian, the most widely spoken language, is the only official language at the national level. There are 26 languages which are considered official languages in various regions of Russia, along with Russian. There are over 100 minority languages spoken in Russia today. From 2020, amendments to the Russian Constitution stipulate that Russian is the language of the "state forming people". With president Vladimir Putin's signing of an executive order on 3 July 2020 to insert the amendments into the constitution, they took effect on 4 July 2020.

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