term North Slavic languages is used in three main senses: for a number of proposed groupings or subdivisions of the Slavic languages. However, "North Slavic"...
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The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They...
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The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These...
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Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of the Slavic languages, distinct from the West and South Slavic languages. East Slavic languages...
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The West Slavic languages are a subdivision of the Slavic language group. They include Polish, Czech, Slovak, Kashubian, Silesian, Upper Sorbian and Lower...
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Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages. Baltic and Slavic languages...
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The history of the Slavic languages stretches over 3000 years, from the point at which the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language broke up (c. 1500 BC)...
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South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch...
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The Eastern South Slavic dialects form the eastern subgroup of the South Slavic languages. They are spoken mostly in Bulgaria and North Macedonia, and adjacent...
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monuments of Slavic languages, among them the first texts written in national languages. At this time the majority of Slavic languages received their first...
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motivated by the belief that all Slavic languages were dialects of one single Slavic language rather than separate languages. They deplored the fact that...
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Russian and Ruthenian languages. Ruthenian eventually evolved into the Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian languages. The term Old East Slavic is used in reference...
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closely related and partially mutually intelligible languages spoken by the Sorbs, a West Slavic ethno-cultural minority in the Lusatia region of Eastern...
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Slavs (redirect from SlavicPeoples)
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia;...
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Old Church Slavonic (redirect from Old Church Slavic language)
the first Slavic literary language and the oldest extant written Slavonic language attested in literary sources. It belongs to the South Slavic subgroup...
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southeast of the Baltic Sea in Europe. Together with the Slavic languages, they form the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European family. Scholars usually...
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other languages. The language policy in North Macedonia is regulated by the 7 Article of the Constitution of North Macedonia and the Law of languages. According...
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Proto-Slavic language, the hypothetical ancestor of the modern-day Slavic languages, developed from the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language (c. 1500 BC)...
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A Slavic name suffix is a common way of forming patronymics, family names, and pet names in the Slavic languages. Many, if not most, Slavic last names...
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Early Slavs (redirect from Slavic cradle)
people, who spoke languages similar to theirs. The first written use of the name "Slavs" dates to the 6th century, when the Slavic tribes inhabited a...
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related Macedonian language (collectively forming the East South Slavic languages), it is a member of the Balkan sprachbund and South Slavic dialect continuum...
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of language contact between Romanian and Slavic languages is overwhelmingly towards Romanian as well as its other Eastern Romance sister languages (Aromanian...
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Slavic languages of Macedonia may refer to: Slavic languages of Macedonia (region), various Slavic languages (historical and modern) spoken in the geographical...
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South Slavs (redirect from South Slavic peoples)
South Slavs are Slavic people who speak South Slavic languages and inhabit a contiguous region of Southeast Europe comprising the eastern Alps and the...
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Dialect continuum (redirect from Cluster of languages)
covers the East Slavic and West Slavic languages. East Slavic includes Russian, Belarusian, Rusyn and Ukrainian; West Slavic languages of Czech, Polish...
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Dragoș (given name) (category Articles containing Serbian-language text)
candidate Jiří Drahoš. It is common in North Slavic languages such as Czech to turn the 'g' into 'h'. Slavic influence on Romanian Oliviu Felecan (15...
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Church Slavonic (redirect from Church Slavic language)
Slavonic is the conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland...
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West Slavs (redirect from West Slavic peoples)
The West Slavs are Slavic peoples who speak the West Slavic languages. They separated from the common Slavic group around the 7th century, and established...
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well as in cognates in other Indo-European languages, particularly Baltic languages. During the Common Slavic period, a tendency, known as the law of open...
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East Slavs (redirect from East Slavic people)
Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs. They speak the East Slavic languages, and formed the majority of the population of the medieval state Kievan...
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