More than 1.4 million people (over 4 per cent of the total population in Canada) identified themselves as an Aboriginal person. Aboriginal peoples in Canada are defined in the Constitution Act, 1982 as Indian (more commonly referred to as First Nations), Metis, mÃ©tis And. inuit
The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) are the Indo-European languages native to the Slavic peoples, originally from Eastern Europe.
Russian is one of several Slavic languages that use a form of the Cyrillic. alphabet (others include Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, and. Ukrainian). There are minor variations in the forms of Cyrillic used in the Slavic. languages; the alphabet shown here is that used in modern Russian. Pre-1917. Russian documents also used the characters i and v, equivalent to modern w, the. character 'b, equivalent to modern e; and e, equivalent to modern d).