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The East Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs. [3] They speak the East Slavic languages, [4] and formed the majority of the population of the medieval state Kievan Rus', which they claim as their cultural ancestor. [5] [6] Today Belarusians, Russians and Ukrainians are the existent East Slavic nations.
Of the three Slavic branches, East Slavic is the most spoken, with the number of native speakers larger than the Western and Southern branches combined. The common consensus is that Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian are the extant East Slavic languages. [2] Some linguists also consider Rusyn a separate language, [3] [4] although it is sometimes ...
Map 6: Maximum extent of European territory inhabited by the East Slavic tribes - predecessors of Kievan Rus', the first East Slavic state [10] - in the 8th and 9th century. Antes (common ancestors of the East Slavs; some were also the ancestors of part of West Slavs and South Slavs) Western-Northern groups
Old East Slavic [a] (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, [4] until it diverged into the Russian and Ruthenian languages. [5] Ruthenian eventually evolved into the Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian languages. [6]
Eastern Slavic parents select a given name for a newborn child. Most first names in East Slavic languages originate from two sources: Eastern Orthodox Church tradition; native pre-Christian Slavic lexicons; Almost all first names are single. Doubled first names (as in, for example, French, like Jean-Luc) are very rare and are from foreign ...
East Slavic may refer to: East Slavic languages, one of three branches of the Slavic languages; East Slavs, a subgroup of Slavic peoples who speak the East Slavic ...
Balto-Slavic language tree. [citation needed] Linguistic maps of Slavic languagesSince the interwar period, scholars have conventionally divided Slavic languages, on the basis of geographical and genealogical principle, and with the use of the extralinguistic feature of script, into three main branches, that is, East, South, and West (from the vantage of linguistic features alone, there are ...
The Proto-Slavic homeland is the area of Slavic settlement in Central and Eastern Europe during the first millennium AD, with its precise location debated by archaeologists, ethnographers and historians. [21] Most scholars consider Polesia the homeland of the Slavs. [4] [22] Theories attempting to place Slavic origin in the Near East have been ...