East Slavic languages

East Slavic language

East Slavic language

East Slavic language

East Slavic language spoken by Carpathian Rusyns, Lemkos, Boykos, and Hutsuls

language family

language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century

historical Slavic language, ancestor of Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian; official, literary and spoken language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Moldavian principality and East Slavic voivodeships of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

extinct language

East Slavic language spoken in Southwestern Belarus and in the bordering regions of Poland

Iazychie (; ) was an artificial literary East Slavic language used in the 19th century and the early 20th century in Halychyna, Bukovina, and Zakarpattia in publishing, particularly by Ukrainian and Carpatho-Rusyn Russophiles (Moskvophiles). It was an unsystematic combination of Russian with the lexical, phonetic and grammatical elements of vernacular Ukrainian and Rusyn, Church Slavonic, Ruthenian, Polish, and Old Slavic.

dialect