Family / Group : Indo-European ; Subgroup: Balto-Slavic, Slavic, East
Area : Russian Federation, Ukraine, Central Asia, Caucasus
Type : fusional; accusative marking
Inflectional language : Yes
Language with gender : F, M, NEU
Sources of lexicon : homolexical
Language with sortal classifiers : No
Syntactics for numerals : NUM N; for cardinals the order N CARD also exists and triggers an approximate interpretation
Specific traits :
Numeration base :
Comments : 13,000,000 users in Russian Federation, about 268,000,000 users in all countries (Ethnologue)
Informants : an initial set of forms was provided to us by Svetlana Sokolova and Peter Arkadiev. The present data have been checked by Tatiana Iakovleva.