section_path: Comparison with other Slavic languages
section_name: Comparison with other Slavic languages
paragraph_text: Comparison with other Slavic languages
  
  During the Proto-Slavic (Common Slavic) times all Slavs spoke one mutually intelligible language or group of dialects. There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian, and a moderate degree of it in all modern Slavic languages, at least at the conversational level.