Langenesis

Indo-European family

Old East Slavic

600 CE – 1500 CE Extinct

Old East Slavic (600 CE – 1500 CE) is an extinct Indo-European language. It has 5 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Slavic → Old East Slavic.

See Old East Slavic on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
orv

Spoken in Kievan Rus'; ancestor of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian. Often called Old Russian in older literature.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Slavicc. 200 BCE – 600 CE
  3. Old East Slavic600 CE – 1500 CE

Descendants 2

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-Slavic.

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