Refer to the passage below and then answer the question afterwards in the same language as the passage:

Passage: The East Slavs are Slavic peoples speaking the East Slavic languages. Formerly the main population of the loose medieval Kievan Rus federation state , by the seventeenth century they evolved into the Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn and Ukrainian people.

Question: What language do the people speak?
East Slavic languages