Original sentence: A version of Ruthenian, which is considered to be the Old Belarusian, became the official language of the chancellery and courts of the Grand Duchy until 1696.All of the documents of the Lithuanian Metrika (the whole archive of the State Chancellery of the Grand Duchy) and Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania are written in this language.Old Belarusian was actually the language of the first Bible to be printed in one of the Eastern Slavic languages — the achievement of Francysk Skaryna.The 16th century was the Belarusian golden age: many schools were active, and religious quarrels between Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants and Jews were fought using printing presses rather then violence.The modern Belarusian language has evolved considerably from its early roots, the dialects of Old Ruthenian (Common East Slavic) spoken in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus' and Samogitia
Edited sentence: A version of Ruthenian, which may be considered to be the Old Belarusian, became one of the official languages (other one was Latin language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and was usable language of the chancellery and courts until 1696.Belarusian was actually the language of the first Bible to be printed in one of the Slavic languages — the achievement of Francysk Skaryna.In particular, the two most importand documents of this epoch, the Lithuanian Metrika (archive of the State Chancellery) and Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania are written in this language.The following century was the Belarusian golden age: many schools were active, and religious quarrels between Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants and Jews were fought using printing presses rather then violence.The modern Belarusian language has evolved considerably from its early roots, the dialects of Old Ruthenian (Common East Slavic) spoken in the territory of the eastern Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus' and Samogitia