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Russian (???????
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languages.
History
Early historical records of the
territory European Russia point to predominance of tribes of the
Finno-Ugric language group. Slavic speakers appear to have
established sparse settlements of forts in the borderland areas near
Belarus and Ukraine between the 6th and the 9th centuries. The
incorporation of much of European Russia into the empire of Rus'
ushered in the use of Old Church Slavonic in worship and literature,
beginning as early as 989. Documentation of the language of this
period is scanty, making the question of the relationship between the
literary and spoken language difficult at best. Nevertheless, the
assimilation of the surrounding Finno-Ugric majority through conquest
and conversion by small outposts of Slavic settlement led to massive
contributions of the Old Church Slavonic language to the embryonic
Russian dialect.
Major divergences with the Old Ruthenian
language of Kievan Rus' to the south were evident by the 1100s, and
these were magnified by the political separations of the break-up of
the state of Rus', leading to the incorporation of the closest Slavic
neighbors of the Russians into the Lithuanian and Polish states after
periods of local independence.
The Russian portions then fell
under Mongolian hegemony, leading to new influences on the developing
language. Divergences from Old Slavonic increased over the 11th to
the 17th centuries to the point of complete separation. Upon Russia's
opening to the West, new borrowings from Europeans languages of
English, German, French, Polish and Ukrainian occurred.
In
summary, the Russian language developed from early native Slavic
settlement influenced by Finno-Ugric surroundings. An early overlay
and infusion of Old Church Slavonic was very decisive in local
language formation. Later political developments brought Mongolian
then European influences. The Russian scholar Meleti Smotritsky
provided some of the early standardization of Russian language.
Reforms were also introduced at the time of
Peter the Great,
and the orthography was simplified in the 20th century around the
time of the Russian Revolution.