Great Russian

Japanese: 大ロシア語 - だいロシアご（英語表記）Great Russian

It has been used since the mid-19th century as a synonym for the modern "Russian." In other words, the three languages Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian (White Russian), which all share the same roots in Old Russian, were collectively referred to as Russian in the broad sense, and the narrow sense of Russian was called Great Russian to distinguish it from it. This is based on the custom since the late 17th century, when Ukraine was derogatorily called Little Russia. Currently, this term is only used as part of the terminology of dialectology. Russian [Junichi Sato]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

現代の〈ロシア語〉と同義の呼称で19世紀中ごろから用いられた。すなわち，古ロシア語を共通の源とするロシア語，ウクライナ語，ベラルーシ語(白ロシア語)の三つをあわせて広義のロシア語とし，狭義のロシア語をこれと区別するため大ロシア語と称したが，これはウクライナを差別的に小ロシアと呼ぶ17世紀後半以来の習慣にもとづく。現在この呼称は方言学の術語の一部として用いられるにすぎない。ロシア語【佐藤純一】

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