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===Feudal breakup, the Vladimir Period, Mongol hegemony (XII-XIV centuries)===
Dialectal differentiation in the language spoken by the Eastern Slavs is apparent from the earliest period, but accelerated after the breakup of [[Kievan Rus']] and the incorporation of its western regions into [[Lithuania|Lithuanian]] and [[Poland|Polish]] states after periods of local independence, and was assisted by the conquest of its eastern regions by the [[Mongol invasion of Russia|Mongols]] in the twelth century. Nonetheless, the vernacular language of the conquered remained firmly Slavic. The few borrowings from the language of the distant hegemons relate mostly to [[commerce]] and the [[military]]:
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