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Brief history of Russian language:
Foundations of the Russian language
The 6th century AD saw the relocation of the Slav individuals from old Poland. The Slavs extended westwards to the stream Elbe and southwards to the Adriatic ocean where they progressively involved a large part of the Balkans.
By the tenth century, three Slavonic language bunches had arisen: Western, Southern and Eastern. Eastern Slavonic brought about the cutting edge dialects known as Ukrainian, Belorussian and Russian. The Slavonic dialects held numerous highlights in like manner particularly in linguistic design; consequently, the different gatherings had the option to utilize one normal composed language. This language was known as Old Slavonic or Old Church Slavonic (the language was utilized in its composed structure as it were). In the ninth century, two ministers – Constantine (who on his deathbed took the devout name Cyril) and Methodius – were needed to record the sacred writings in Old Church Slavonic and to lecture Christianity to individuals of Moravia.
Before they set out for Moravia, Constantine developed a Slavonic, presently known as Cyrillic, letter set. The Cyrillic letters in order is firmly founded on the Greek letter set, with around twelve extra letters designed to address Slavic sounds not found in Greek.
In Russia, Cyrillic was first written in the early Middle-Ages in obvious, readable ustav (huge letters). Later a progression of cursive structures created. In the mid eighteenth century, under Peter the Great, the types of letters were rearranged and normalized, with some suitable just to Greek being eliminated. Further superfluous letters were erased in 1918, leaving the letter set as it is today.
Low, Middle and High Style
Old Church Slavonic stayed the composed language until the center of the eighteenth century in Russia. At this point, the need was felt for a composed language which was nearer to the informed spoken standard. The popular M. V. Lomonosov, after which the Moscow State University is named, recognized three styles:
1) High Style – Church Slavonic, to be utilized for poetics and religion.
2) Middle Style – to be utilized for verse, exposition and science.
3) Low Style – to be utilized in close to home correspondence and in low satire.
The Middle Style, which consolidated highlights of both East Slavonic and Church Slavonic is the style which came to frame the premise of the advanced standard language. During the 1800's, Standard Russian dependent on the Moscow tongue turned into the authority language.
The Russian language permits an intriguing method of addressing individuals to whom you have recently been presented. The individual's first name is joined with an adjusted type of their dad's first name. On the off chance that a man's first name is Ivan and his dad's first name is additionally Ivan, you would call him Ivan Ivanovich (Ivan, child of Ivan), and if Ivan had a sister, she would be called Natasha Ivanovna, (Natasha, little girl of Ivan). The - ovich and - ovna additions are constantly attached to the dad's first name and not to the mother's.