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| | The Hail Mary in Various Languages |
 | | Croatian is the official language of Croatia, an independent republic of Eastern Europe and former constituent republic of Yugoslavia spoken by 4,800,000 persons in that nation, as well as by considerable numbers in Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Romania, Greece, Slovakia, Germany, and Sweden. |
 | | The earliest concerted attempts to write Slovak are traced to the 17th and 18th centuries, when Catholic hymnals were produced at the University of Trnava. |
 | | The western Slovak dialect was first written and codified as a grammar in the late 18th century by Anton Bernolak, a Roman Catholic priest, while the central Slovak dialect was codified by a Protestant Ludovit Stur in the early 19th century. |
| www.udayton.edu /mary/resources/flhm01.html (5108 words) |
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