Old East Slavic

Also known as Old Russian, Common Russian, OES, Common Eastern Slavic, Old East Slavic language, Old Russian language

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

AI overview

Old East Slavic was the language spoken by East Slavic peoples from roughly the 7th or 8th century through the 13th or 14th century. It matters because it is the ancestor of modern Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian, and studying it helps us understand how these languages developed and how East Slavic peoples communicated during the medieval period.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: language
Subclass of: East Slavic
Located in: Eastern Europe
Image: OstromirGospel.jpg

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writing system: Glagolitic
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 0
linguistic typology: fusional language
topic has template: Template:Lang-orv
Commons category: Old East Slavic
topic's main category: Category:Old East Slavic

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Encyclopedic overview

Old East Slavic (traditionally also Old Russian) was a language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century, until it diverged into the Russian and Ruthenian languages. Ruthenian eventually evolved into the Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian languages.

Terminology

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Old East Slavic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.