Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family. It is a descendant of Old East Slavic, a language utilized in Kievan Rus', which was a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid 13th centuries. From https://penzu.com/p/bbc9f16f of view of spoken language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn, the other 3 languages in the East Slavic branch. An East Slavic Old Novgorod dialect, although it vanished throughout the 15th or 16th century, is in some cases viewed as to have played a significant part in the formation of modern day Russian.
Created at 2022-12-06 09:33