Skalvian (extinct) West Galindian (extinct) Sudovian (Yotvingian) (extinct) Slavic languages Proto-Slavic (extinct) North Slavic (dialect continuum) East Slavic languages/Northeast Slavic (dialect continuum) Old Novgorodian-Pskovian (Archaic East Slavic/Northwest Old Slavic or a North Slavic proper group)? (extinct) Old Novgorodian (extinct) Innovative East Slavic Old East Slavic (Old Russian, Old Rusyn, Old Ukrainian and Old Belarusian) (extinct) Ruthenian (Old Rusyn, Old Ukrainian and Old Belarusian) (extinct) Southwest Old East Slavic (Old Rusyn) Rusyn / Carpathian Rusyn (also known as Ruthenian, Rusinian) (Pусиньскый язык / Pуски язи – Rusîn'skyj Jazyk / Ruski Jazik / Pуснацькый язык – Rusnac'kyj jazyk / Πо-Hашому – Po Nashomu) (spoken by the Rusyns mainly in Carpathian Ruthenia, most in Transcarpathia, far southeastern Poland and far northeastern Slovakia and also in enclaves in Bačka, Vojvodina, northern Serbia; Slavonia, eastern Croatia; the Banat, southwestern Romania; and northern Bosnia) (divergent enough to be considered its own language, not a simple Ukrainian dialect, although it has some mutual intelligibility with Ukrainian) Hutsulian / Gutsulian (dialect spoken by the Hutsuls or Gutsuls) Boykian (dialect spoken by the Boykos) Dolinyan / Sub-Carpathian Lemkian (dialect spoken by the Lemkos) Rusyn diaspora dialects Pannonian Rusyn / Bačka Rusyn (Ruski jazik) Canadian Ukrainian (Kанадсько-українська мова – Kanadsko-Ukraїnska Mova) (more closely related to Rusyn) Southern Old East Slavic (Old Ukrainian) Ukrainian (Українська мова – Ukrayins'ka Mova) (an older name was Little Russian – Малоросійський - Malorosiys'kyy or Малорусский - Malorusskyy) Southern South-Western (Western South) Volynian/Volhylian Podilian/Podolian Upper Dniestrian Sjanian/Sanian/Upper Sanian Pokuttyan-Bukovynian South-Eastern (Eastern South) Middle Dnieprian (includes Kyiv, Cherkasy, Poltava) (basis of Modern Standard Ukrainian but not identical) Kyiv dialect (in Kyiv) Slobozhan / Slodozian / Slododzian (in Slobozhan or Sloboda Ukraine region) (in most regions it overlapps with Orlovskiy Russian dialect in a complex language situation) Steppe Ukrainian (in most regions it overlapps with Orlovskiy Russian, Surzhyk, Standard Ukrainian and Standard Russian in a complex language situation) Don Cossack Balachka Black Sea-Kuban Cossack (mixed and overlapped with Orlovskiy Russian) (roughly in Krasnodar Kray including the Kuban (river) valley) Mountain Cossack (North Caucasus Cossack) (mixed and overlapped with Orlovskiy Russian) (roughly in Krasnodar Kray) Transitional Ukrainian-Belarusian (Northern Ukrainian dialects) Polesian / Polisian Eastern Polesian Central Polesian West Polesian Motolian Central Old East Slavic (Old Belarusian) Belarusian (Беларуская мова – Biełaruskaja Mova) South-Western Slutskian Mazyrskian Hrodzean-Baranavian (Hrodna-Baranavichy) Middle (basis of Modern Standard Belarusian but not identical) Minskian (Menskian) (in Mensk / Minsk) North-Eastern Polatskian Vitsebskian East-Mahilioŭian (East-Mogilevian) Transitional Belarusian-Russian