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| | old russian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The Old Russian language, also called the Old Ruthenian language, or, perhaps Late Old East Slavic was, in the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, a language spoken, though not exclusively, roughly in the area today occupied by European Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of Poland and Lithuania. |
 | | This Old Russian language is the predecessor to the modern Ukrainian, Rusyn or Ruthenian, and Belarusian languages, as well as, of course, to the modern Russian language. |
 | | Obviously, it is impossible to consider this language standardised in the modern sense. |
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