Old East Slavic
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Old East Slavic was a language used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century, until it diverged into the Russian and Ruthenian languages. Ruthenian eventually evolved
Sheet from the Radziwiłł Chronicle
A page from Svyatoslav's Miscellanies (1073).
Ostromir Gospels from Novgorod, dating to 1056 or 1057
Literate 14th-century Novgorodians sent each other letters written on birch bark
Ruthenian language
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Ruthenian was a written language used from the 14th to the 18th centuries within the East Slavic-speaking regions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Literary
Old East Slavic
…language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century, until it diverged into the Russian and Ruthenian languages. Ruthenian eventually evolved into the Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian languages. The term Old East Slavic is used in reference to the common…
Ruthenian Bible printed in 1517