The East Slavic Language Family: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn The East Slavic language family forms one of the three major branches of the Slavic languages, alongside West Slavic and South Slavic.Spoken across the vast lands of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, the East Slavic languages — Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn — share a […]
The Rusyn language
Rusyn Rusyn (Rusyn: русиньскый язык, русиньска бесїда / руски язик in some varieties) is an East Slavic language (or — depending on scholarly and political views — a cluster of closely related East Slavic lects) traditionally spoken by the Rusyn (Carpatho-Rusyn) peoples of the Carpathian borderlands and in several diaspora communities. It is written primarily […]
The Ukranian language
Ukrainian language Overview Ukrainian (українська мова, uk) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European family. It is the official state language of Ukraine and the native language of the majority of the population there. As a living Slavic language, Ukrainian sits in the East Slavic branch alongside Russian and Belarusian; historically it descends from […]