THE LANGUAGE OF UKRAINIAN WRITTEN ARTIFACTS OF THE XIV–XVI CENTURIES IN THE TERMINOLOGICAL COVERAGE

The article discusses the terms that nominate the language of written artifacts documented by the Cyrillic on the Ukrainian-Byelorussian lands in the XIV-XVI centuries; the expediency of using the notion “literary language” as to the Ukrainian literary written tradition of the XIV–XVI centuries is clarified; the content of the term “linguistic norm” is outlined, its characteristics in the investigated period are determined.