Old Ruthenian language - Definition and Overview
The name
Old Ruthenian language
has been applied to different things.
Old East Slavic language
was the language of
Kievan Rus'
, spoken from the
9th
to
14th
centuries. It was the ancestor of the
East Slavic
languages
Belarusian
,
Russian
,
Rusyn
, and
Ukrainian
.
Ruthenian language
was its descendent which was spoken in the historic
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
from the
15th
to
18th
centuries. It was the ancestor of modern
Belarusian
,
Rusyn
, and
Ukrainian
languages.
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disambiguation
page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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