Old East Slavic

Old East Slavic, Old Russian 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. Dialects of it were spoken, though not exclusively, in the area today occupied by Belarus, Northern Ukraine, parts of European Russia, and several eastern voivodships of Poland.

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