Original sentence: The most neutral, supranational terms for Old East Slavonic can be translated to English as ...  (including , staražytnaruskaja mova; , drevnerusskij jazyk; and , davn’orus’ka mova.The samples of birch-bark writing excavated in Novgorod have provided crucial information about the pure tenth-century Old Novgorod dialect, almost entirely free of Church Slavonic influence.There are references in Arab and Byzantine sources to pre-Christian Slavs in European Russia using some form of writing (where
Edited sentence: The most neutral, supranational terms for Old East Slavonic can be translated to English as "Old Russian" (including , staražytnaruskaja mova; , drevnerusskij jazyk; and , davn’orus’ka mova.The samples of birch-bark writing excavated in Novgorod have provided crucial information about the pure tenth-century vernacular in North-West Russia, almost entirely free of Church Slavonic influence.There are references in Arab and Byzantine sources to pre-Christian Slavs in European Russia using some form of writing