What is the history of the Russian Language?

Russian belongs to the group of Indo-European languages and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, including English, French, and Gaelic. Written examples are extant from the tenth century C.E. onwards. Sometime around 3500 to 2500 BC the people who spoke the language known as Indo-European began gradually to form dialect communities and separate from each other. As the Indo-European tribes moved to the West and to the East, the Slavic tribes became separated from the mass of other tribes and developed their own language, which is called Common-Slavonic or Proto-Slavonic. The Russian language emerged between 880 AD through the 14th century AD out of a group of related dialects that were prominent in the area at the time and collectively referred to as Old East Slavic. During this time, the main languages that influenced the development of Russian were Gothic, Old Norse, Old Church Slavonic, and Byzantine Greek. While it preserves much of its ancient synthetic-inflexional structure and a Common Slavonic word base, modern Russian shares a large stock of the international vocabulary for politics, science, and technology. A language of political importance in the twentieth century, it is one of the official languages of the United Nations.

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