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The Slavs (in one view)"arrived" from central europe and set up house in what would become Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia. This dates thier origin around 581 BCE. Another view is that they orginated in the Eurasian plains and were ruled by the Scythians or Avars. This places their origin around 700 BCE. The difference is when the Scythians and Avars were in power.
The Russian language existed as a spoken language before it was a written one. Very few if any language has evolved in true isolation from other languages. Even modern attempts at language creation are based on other models. Even math is a form of language. Therefore computer languages are derivatives of that primary stalk. Common history relates that Russian was codified and assigned an alphabet by St. Cyrill and St. Methodius. Thus giving the name to the alphabet. Cyrillic is merely the written manifestation of a naturally evolved language that already existed. It's lettering is similar to Greek due to the fact that both Cyrill and Methodius were Orthodox priests not Catholic. Therefore they had a preference for Greek over Latin. In short, while the alphabet may be created, the spoken language was and is far from artificial.
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