Languages of Russia - Official Languages

Official Languages

Although Russian is the only federally official language of the Russian Federation, there are several other officially recognized languages within Russia's various constituencies – Constitution of Russia only allows the republics to establish official languages other than Russian. This is a list of languages that are official only in certain parts of Russia (the language family in which the language belongs is given in parentheses).

1. Abaza (Northwest Caucasian; in the Karachay–Cherkess Republic)
2. Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian; in the Republic of Adygea)
3. Altay (Turkic; in the Altai Republic)
4. Lezgi (Northeast Caucasian); and Azerbaijani (Turkic in the Republic of Dagestan)
5. Avar (Northeast Caucasian); and Azerbaijani (Turkic in the Republic of Dagestan)
6. Bashkir (Turkic; in the Republic of Bashkortostan)
7. Buryat (Mongolic; in Agin-Buryat Okrug and the Buryat Republic)
8. Chechen (Northeast Caucasian; in the Chechen Republic)
9. Chuvash (Turkic; in the Chuvash Republic)
10. Erzya (Uralic; in the Republic of Mordovia)
11. Ingush (Northeast Caucasian; in the Republic of Ingushetia)
12. Kabardian (Northwest Caucasian; in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic and Karachay–Cherkess Republic)
13. Kalmyk (Mongolic; in the Republic of Kalmykia)
14. Karachay-Balkar (Turkic; in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic and Karachay–Cherkess Republic)
15. Khakas (Turkic; in the Republic of Khakassia)
16. Komi-Zyrian (Uralic; in the Komi Republic)
17. Mansi (Uralic; in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug)
18. Mari (Uralic; in the Mari El Republic)
19. Moksha (Uralic; in the Republic of Mordovia)
20. Nogai (Turkic; in the Karachay–Cherkess Republic)
21. Ossetic (Iranian; in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania)
22. Tatar (Turkic; in the Republic of Tatarstan)
23. Tuvаn (Turkic; in the Tuva Republic)
24. Udmurt (Uralic; in the Udmurt Republic)
25. Yakut (Turkic; in the Sakha Republic)