Edited sentence: A large portion of Wallachian toponyms are traced back to their Slavic origins , e.As late as the 17th century Bulgarian (labeled Slavic in modern Romania) was their preferred (and until the 1520s, their only) literary language.Church Slavonic also was the lithurgical language of Vlachs well into the second half of the 19th century.Even nowadays, Romanian orthography exhibits clear influences from its Cyrillic origins as Cyrillic was clearly more relevant to specific Vlach phonemes without the use of complex diacritical marks abounding in the present Romanian alphabet.The term also applies to the replacement of traditional Cyrillic script and liturgical Church Slavonic language and the purge of Romanian literary language of its Slavic elements conducted in late 19th-century Romania, essentially creating a new language and severing Wallachia's ties to its Slavic heritage.The transition from Cyrillic to Roman script was marked by the use of a mixed Cyrillic-Roman version.There is ample linguistic evidence that the Bulgarian used by the Wallachian chancelleries in the 14th-17th century was not a borrowed classical literary language but a live vernacular of a substantial part, if not the majority, of the Wallachian population.Unlike other Romance-speaking peoples, Vlachs traditionally belong to the Eastern Orthodox church and a large portion of modern Romanian Christian terminology has Slavic etymology.Vlach language, before it was agressively purged of Bulgarianisms in the late 19th century and renamed Romanian, exhibited clearly Bulgarian origins for over 50% of its dictionary, including most ancient agricultural terms.Vlachs appeared in present-day Wallachia not earlier than the 12th century BCE.Vlachs wrote in both Bulgarian and Vlach in the Cyrillic alphabet officially until the late 1860s, yet en masse until the late 19th century, on some occasions even into the 1920s.the historical Vlach capital ot Tirgoviste or the river Dambovita on which Bucharest stands