Complex sentence: However the commoners, especially the peasants, continued to speak their own languages and to practise the Orthodox religion, which eventually created a significant rift between the lower social classes of people and the nobility in the Lithuanian and Ruthenian areas of the Commonwealth.
Split into simpler sentences: However the commoners, especially the peasants, continued to speak their own languages and to practise the Orthodox religion. This eventually created a significant rift between the lower social classes and the nobility in the Lithuanian and Ruthenian areas of the Commonwealth.