what language do russian people speak?
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 Ingush language ( historically ) , later replaced in the 17th century by Arabic and by the Cyrillic script in modern times . 

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 Traditionally , Russian speakers read newspapers and listen to radio more often than Hebrew speakers . 

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 Avar language ( historically ) , later replaced in the 17th century by Arabic and by the Cyrillic script in modern times . 

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 Russian language . In the collections of the National Center of Manuscripts in Tbilisi there are also a few short poems in the Russian language written in Georgian script dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries . 

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 The languages have not undergone the deliberate highlighting of minor linguistic differences in the name of nationalism as has occurred in the Bosnian , Serbian and Croatian standards of Serbo @-@ Croatian . However , most Slavic languages ( including Czech ) have been distanced in this way from Russian influences because of widespread public resentment against the former Soviet Union ( which occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968 ) . Czech and Slovak form a dialect continuum , with great similarity between neighboring Czech and Slovak dialects . ( See " Dialects " below . ) 
