4: Before Europe
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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Slavic Language
The conversion in around 988 to Christianity is also the moment when a written language emerges on these territories. So this is a continuity. This is something which was there before Kievenruz, before any idea of Europe. And so here we have a very significant continuity. In Slavic languages up till now, nim-y, or something like that means mute, or maybe deaf. Someone who can't talk or who can't hear. That tells you that there is this ancient barrier between people who speak Slavic and people who speak Germanic languages. It's not where it always was.
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