Languages
- Old East Slavic, the language of Kievan Rus', ancestral to all modern East Slavic languages
- Ruthenian language, an East Slavic language of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ancestral to Belarusian and Ukrainian languages
- Ukrainian language
- Belarusian language
- Carpatho-Rusyn, the Rusyn language spoken in Carpathian Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary
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“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)
“No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)