title: Old Ruthenian language
text: # Old Ruthenian language
  
  Old Ruthenian language may refer to:
  
  * Old East Slavic, a language used in the 10th to 14th centuries by East Slavs in Kyivan Rus', ancestor of Russian and Ruthenian (ancestor of Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian)
  * Ruthenian language, a language used in the 15th to 18th centuries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Cossack state, ancestor of Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian
  