Indoeuropean languages - one of the largest linguistic families in Eurasia that has spread also to the Northern and Southern America, Australia and, to some extent, Africa.

The following Indoeuropean languages, in addition to Russian, are generally regarded as native to Russia:

Germanic languages

• Yiddish

Iranian languages

• Ossetian
• Tat

Indic, or Indo-Aryan, languages

• Romany

Yiddish, Ossetian and Tat have literary status (the first based on the traditional Hebrew script, others on the Russian script). Romany has remained unwritten.

In addition to those mentioned above, many other Indoeuropean languages are also spoken in Russia:

• Armenian
• Belorussian
• Bulgarian
• Czech
• German
• Greek
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Polish
• Romanian (Moldavian)
• Slovak
• Tadzhik
• Ukranian

etc.