The name Old Ruthenian language has been applied to the Old East Slavic language which was the language of Old Ruthenia, spoken from the 9th to 14th centuries. It was the ancestor of the East Slavic languages Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian. Old Ruthenia (Ukrainian: , Rus’) was the early, mostly East Slavic¹ state dominated by the city of Kiev (Ukrainian: Ки́їв, Kyiv), from about 880 to the middle of the 12th century. ...

See also Old East Slavic language. Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...