Dari semua bahasa di Rusia, bahasa Rusia, bahasa yang paling banyak dituturkan, merupakan satu-satunya bahasa resmi pada tingkat nasional. Terdapat 35 bahasa yang diakui sebagai bahasa resmi di berbagai wilayah di Rusia. Pada saat ini terdapat lebih dari 100 bahasa minoritas yang dituturkan di Rusia.[5]
Offord, Derek, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, Vladislav Rjéoutski, and Gesine Argent. French and Russian in Imperial Russia: Language Use among the Russian Elite. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Available atJSTOR.
Minority languages of Russia on the NetDiarsipkan 2009-04-20 di Wayback Machine. project, which aims at presenting the languages of Russia to the Web and at facilitating their usage on the Web (most information is in Russian; it provides scientific references on each individual language as well as links to online language descriptions, educational and scientific institutions related to the language, resources on computer-processing of the language and some sites written in this language)