List of languages of Russia

This is a list of languages used in Russia. Russian is the only official language at the national level and there are other 35 official languages, which are used in different regions of Russia.^[1] There are approximately 190 indigenous languages in Russia. The ten largest of these, which do not hold official state status outside the Russian Federation, are listed below in descending order of the number of speakers: Tatar, Chechen, Bashkir, Chuvash, Avar, Kabardian, Dargwa, Ossetian, Kumyk and Lezgin, according to the 2010 Russian census^[2].