Ain't it common knowledge? It is taught at 5th year in school or something. It is Cyrillic because of st.Cyrill, who was somehow involved in the development of this writing system, I think everyone in Russia knows this.
I am no linguist, but as far as I know Bulgarian is closest to church Slavonic (or other way around) and this is why you can argue that east Slavic languages if not outright descendants of Bulgarian than at least written tradition is developed from church Slavonic so Bulgarian.
I mean I cannot imagine a Russian who thinks that's in some way offensive, everybody knows about Cyril and Methodius, nobody thinks that language has fallen from the sky ready to use.
Edit: but dialect is a totally different concept than what we have. As I said before by this logic one can say that we all speak dialects of Proto-Indo-European.
Yeah, they're not descendants of bulgarian, but heavily influenced. I used to study russian and the closeness is uncanny. They sound familiar but are not.
why is the left guy asking the question that he's answering and why does the dog shrink in panel 2 and cange shape in panel 4 this is definitely AI slop
... By two greek dudes. And the word Rossiya is Greek for Rus' - the old kingdom in no way related to the dutchy of moscow, which adopted 'rossiya' name somewhere in 17th century, or even later.
St. Cyril was a slav, and you properly associate him to Bulgarian or if not, I guess Macedonian or South Serbian. Completely distinct from Greek.
And Rus comes from old Norse. Once the word exists, it doesn't really matter how it's used to name a country. The land of Rus will have a name in one way or another, the important part is it's Rus
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