Ruthenian language (disambiguation)
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The name Ruthenian language has sometimes been applied to:
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- Old East Slavic languageOld East Slavic languageOld East Slavic or Old Ruthenian was a language used in 10th-15th centuries by East Slavs in the Kievan Rus' and states which evolved after the collapse of the Kievan Rus...
, the language of Kievan Rus', ancestral to all modern East Slavic languages - Ruthenian languageRuthenian languageRuthenian, or Old Ruthenian , is a term used for the varieties of Eastern Slavonic spoken in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later in the East Slavic territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth....
, an East Slavic language of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ancestral to Belarusian and Ukrainian languages - Ukrainian languageUkrainian languageUkrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
- Belarusian languageBelarusian languageThe Belarusian language , sometimes referred to as White Russian or White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people...
- Carpatho-Rusyn, the Rusyn language spoken in Carpathian Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary
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- RutheniaRutheniaRuthenia is the Latin word used onwards from the 13th century, describing lands of the Ancient Rus in European manuscripts. Its geographic and culturo-ethnic name at that time was applied to the parts of Eastern Europe. Essentially, the word is a false Latin rendering of the ancient place name Rus...
- Etymology of Rus and derivatives