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The official language of Russia is Russian. Russian language emerged on the basis east-Slavic languages: with Russian state establishment there came the ...

Origin of Russian Language ... The Slavic people migrated from Poland to Russia in the 6th century CE. Traveling West, they populated the land all the way to the ...

In Russia, Cyrillic was first written in the early Middle-Ages in clear-cut, legible ustav (large letters). Later a succession of cursive forms developed. In ...

Modern literary Russian is based on the Central dialect of Moscow, having basically the consonant system of the Northern dialect and the vowel system of the ...

The roots of Russian can be traced back about 4000 – 6000 years ago. At this time, the language known as Indo-European was beginning to split, ...

Russian is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European family. All Indo-European languages are descendants of a single prehistoric language, ...

Russian began to differentiate itself as a language following the breakup of Kyivan Rus' in approximately 1100. It became a distinct language in ...

• Balachka, a dialect spoken in Krasnodar region, Don, Kuban, and Terek, brought by relocated Cossacks in 1793 and is based on the southwest Ukrainian dialect. During the Russification of the aforementioned regions in the 1920s to 1950s, it was replaced by the Russian language.• Fenya, a criminal argot of ancient origin, with Russian grammar, but with distinct vocabulary

Much of what we know about the origins of the Russian language is rooted in the efforts of historians and linguists to delve into the mystery of the past.

Russian originated in mostly Finno-Ugric Moscovy from Old Church Slavonic, and was influenced by Ruthenian languages, mostly Ukrainian and Belarusian, but also ...

06.09.1999 · Much of what we know about the origins of the Russian language is rooted in the efforts of historians and linguists to delve into the mystery of the past. Sometime around 3500 to 2500 BC the people who spoke the language known as Indo-European began gradually to form dialect communities and separate from each other.

Up to the 14th century, ancestors of the modern Russians (who likewise called themselves ruskiye ) spoke dialects of the Old East Slavic language, related to the dialects of other East Slavs. This spoken tongue and the literary Old Church Slavonic language operated throughout Kievan Rus. The earliest written record of the language, an amphora found at Gnezdovo, may date from the mid-10th cen…