Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Borys and Hlib (Old East Slavic: Борисъ и Глѣбъ, romanized: Borisŭ i Glěbŭ),Ukrainian: Борис і Гліб, romanized: Borys i Hlib; [a] respective Christian names Roman (Романъ, Romanŭ) and David (Давꙑдъ, Davydŭ), [citation needed] were the first saints canonized in Kyivan Rus' after its Christianization.
Samuel Hazzard Cross & Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor English translation of the Laurentian text (2013) [1930, 1953] [5] 9.5 полемъ же жившемъ ѡсобѣ и володѣ ющемъ: полѧномъ же живущиим ѡсобѣ и владѣющимъ: While the Polyanians lived apart and governed: 9.6
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.
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 ...
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]
The history of the Slavic languages stretches over 3000 years, from the point at which the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language broke up (c. 1500 BC) into the modern-day Slavic languages which are today natively spoken in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe as well as parts of North Asia and Central Asia.
Battle between the Slavs and the Scythians — painting by Viktor Vasnetsov (1881). The early Slavs were speakers of Indo-European dialects [1] who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th centuries AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early ...