Russian (русский язык - russkiy yazyk, Російська мова, Russisch) is an East Slavic language native to Russia in Eastern Europe, and is used widely throughout Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Baltic states, Israel, and Mongolia. Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide. It is the world's 7th most spoken language by number of native speakers, and the 2nd most used language on the Internet after English. Russian is written using the Cyrillic script.