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Alex R Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Which is right - Russian speakers or Russian speaking people?

Hi there,
Hope you're having a good day/night

I need an advice from native speakers

I am quite confused with the difference between these two options.
Sometimes I see russian-speaking people, sometimes just russian speakers.
For example:
a quote from Wiki
"
... a number of Russian speakers have remained in Finland. There are 33,400 Russian-speaking Finns, ...
"
Which one and when is right?

I need to figure out a correct wording for a name of our organisation
"Art Society of Russian Speaking in Ireland."

If I would translate it I'd go for "speaking" but it doesn't sound to me correctly, "speakers" sounds better.

Please advice

Looking forward to hearing from you

Regards
Alex
  

Top answer

Alex R a number of Russian speakers ... "Which one and when is right? They both seem acceptable, but I would say 'speakers of Russian'.

— CalifJim

  • Alex R a number of Russian speakers ...
  • "Which one and when is right?
  • They both seem acceptable, but I would say 'speakers of Russian'.
  • Art Society for Speakers of Russian in Ireland CJ
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Alex Ra number of Russian speakers ... There are 33,400 Russian-speaking Finns, ..."Which one and when is right?
They both seem acceptable, but I would say 'speakers of Russian'.

Art Society for Speakers of Russian in Ireland

CJ
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Thank you CJ for the reply

That what it sounds to me as well

But are there any rulers for that?
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Alex RBut are there any rulers rules for that?
No. Just instincts based on what people generally say.

Sometimes you can check Google to see which phrases are more common than others, but that method is not always completely reliable. What's on Google is heavily weighted toward casual usage, in my opinio
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