Languages of the USSR based on language family. Note: the colors are based on the primary ethnic representation of the republic.
The Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics currently has 58 official languages, as well as countless regional and foreign languages spoken within its borders.
Official languages[]
- Abkhaz
- Aghul
- Armenian
- Altay
- Avar
- Azeri
- Bashkir
- Belarusian
- Buryat
- Chechen
- Chukchi
- Chuvash
- Circassian
- Crimean Tatar[1]
- Dargwa
- Erzya
- Evenki
- Finnish
- Gagauz
- Ingush
- Khakas
- Kalmyk
- Karachay-Balkar
- Karakalpak
- Kazakh
- Khanty
- Komi
- Koryak
- Kumyk
- Kyrgyz
- Lak
- Lezgian
- Mansi
- Mari
- Moksha
- Moldavian[2]
- Nenets
- Nogai
- Ossetic
- Russian
- Rutul
- Tabasaran
- Tajik
- Talysh
- Tat
- Tatar[1]
- Tsakhur
- Turkmen
- Tuvan
- Udmurt
- Ukrainian
- Uzbek
- Yakut
Minority languages[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crimean Tatar and (Kazan) Tatar are not to be confused as the same language.
- ↑ Moldavian is referred to as simply the Romanian language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
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