Editing Ruthenian language (section)

==Periodization==
[[File:Linguistic and political map of Eastern Europe, Casimir Delamarre, 1868.jpg|thumb|280px|Linguistic, ethnographic, and political map of Eastern Europe by Casimir Delamarre, 1868 {{legend|#fdeeb9|Ruthenians and Ruthenian language}}]]

Daniel Bunčić suggested a periodization of the literary language into:{{sfn|Bunčić|2015|p=277}}

# Early Ruthenian, dating from the separation of Lithuanian and Muscovite chancery languages (15th century) to the early 16th century 
# High Ruthenian, from [[Francysk Skaryna]] ([[Floruit|fl.]] 1517–25), to [[Ivan Uzhevych]] (''Hramatyka slovenskaia'', 1643, 1645) 
# Late Ruthenian, from 1648 to the establishment of the Ukrainian and Belarusian standard languages at the end of the 18th century