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  Slavic peoples
Proto-Slavic proper, defined as the last stage of the language preceding the split of the historical Slavic languages, predates the 7th century, and was likely spoken during the 5th and 6th century.
The Slavic language group is categorized with the satem or eastern branch of the Indo-European language family, along with the Baltic and Indo-Iranian groups.
The common Slavic experience of communism combined with the repeated usage of the ideology by Soviet propaganda after World War II within the Eastern bloc (Warsaw Pact) was a forced high-level political and economic hegemony of the USSR dominated by Russians, and as such despised by the rest of the conquered nations.
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 Molise - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Molise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Extensive agriculture (utilizing large land areas because of low productivity) is practised in the Apennines, which occupy a large part of Molise, and intensive farming on the Adriatic plain and in the river valleys.
Molise was a poor and underdeveloped region which lost population rapidly (10% between 1963 and 1971) until the development of the Guardialfera Reservoir and new road links with the Adriatic coast.
It remains the least inhabited of Italy's regions, but the decline in its population was stemmed by 1990.
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 Gemeinde
The Slavic language in Molise is a minority language with Italian as the dominant language.
The closest genetically related language is Croatian, due to the Dalmatian origin of the one-time immigrants, hence the terms "Molisian Croatian, Italo-Croatian" along with "Slavic (slavo, schiavone), Molisian Slavic" and the neologism "Slavisian".
A standardisation on the basis of the language use in Acquaviva can be seen in the first large dictionary of Molisian Slavic (Dizionario croato molisano), which has been compiled at the Chair for Slavic Linguistics of the University of Constance.
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 Croatian_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
In Communist Yugoslavia, Serbian language and terminology were "official" in a few areas: the military, diplomacy, Federal Yugoslav institutions (various institutes and research centres), state media, and jurisprudence at the federal level.
Croatian language is today the official language of the Republic of Croatia and, along with Bosnian and Serbian, one of three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The current rules of the language are generally laid out in the grammar books and dictionaries used in education facilities, such as the school curriculum prescribed by the Ministry of Education and the university programmes of the Faculty of Philosophy at the four main universities.
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 Diaspora language - ArticleWorld
A diaspora language is a variety of a language spoken away from its native area in a place of migration.
A language such as Euskara (Basque), which is politically sensitive in the nation it is a minority language in, can become a thriving diaspora language in Nevada in the United States, which say a considerable influx of Basque people coming to work as sheepherders in the early 1900s.
Hindi is a prolific diaspora language, with Trinidadian and Guyanese versions retaining archaic or 19th century forms, in addition to showing some English, Amerindian, West African influence.
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 South Slavic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Serbian language is a system of two dialects: Štokavian and Torlakian.
Croatian language is a system of three dialects: Čakavian, Štokavian and Kajkavian.
Bosnian language is based solely on Štokavian dialect.
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 Slavic peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Slavic peoples are defined by their linguistic attainment of the Slavic languages.
The idea that the Slavic people have more in common than their origin, the origin of their languages, and some cultural aspects is derived from romantic nationalism, the panslavism movement, and the notion of ethnicity as a biological basis of nations.
The Chernoles culture is "sometimes portrayed as either a state in the development of the Slavic languages or at least some form of late Indo-European ancestral to the evolution of the Slavic stock" (James P. Mallory, "Chernoles Culture", Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997).
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 Slavic peoples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In this period There existed central Slavic groups and states such as the Balaton Principality or the Severans, but the eventual expansion of the Magyars and the Romanians as well as the Germanisation of Austria separated the northern and Southern Slavs.
In the early history of the Slavs and continuing into the Dark Ages, Many non-Slavic groups were assimilated by Slavic-speaking populations: the Croats and the Bulgars became Slavicized and their non-Slavic tongues disappeared; in other cases, the Slavs themselves were assimilated into another group: the Magyars, Romanians, and so on.
The common Slavic experience of Soviet communism after World War II within the Eastern bloc (Warsaw Pact) was a high-level political and economic alliance, but nothing more, and it was hegemonical in favor of certain groups.
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 sclaveni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Yet they are connected by speaking often closely related Slavic languages, and also by a sense of common identity and history, which is present to different extents among different individuals and different Slavic peoples.
Slavic peoples are traditionally divided along linguistic lines into West Slavic (including Czechs, Poles, Serb-Lausitzes and Slovaks), East Slavic (including Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians), and South Slavic (including Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenians).
The first known historic Slavic people (Venedi, Sklavene and Anti) did identify themselves by "common ancestors and common blood" according to the 6th century historian Jordanes, and that is also partly supported by modern bio-genetic comparisons (DNA analyses).
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 history of Slavic People
They speak Slavic languages and reside chiefly in the east of that continent, but are also found in Asia east to the Pacific Ocean.
Numerous Slavic place names of the Peloponesus date to the second century C.E. Karantania in today's Austria and Slovenia formed the first known Slavic state, very old are also the Principality of Nitra and the Moravian principality (see under Great Moravia).
In this period there existed central Slavic groups and states such as the Blatensko Knezevstvo or the Severans, but the eventual expansion of the Magyars and the Romanians as well as the Germanisation of Austria separated the northern and southern Slavs.
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 Serbo-Croatian language
Whilst all in the latter two countries born before 1982 will be fluent in the language, many younger people will have sufficient command of the language mostly through popular and folk music on satellite and cable television (or when hosting concerts) from the four countries which create the pivot.
Like most Slavic languages, there are three genders for nouns: masculine, feminine, and neuter, a distinction which is still present even in the plural (unlike Russian).
A language is a dialect with an army and navy
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 Slavic peoples - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
From a Polish/German viewpoint, the "Polish" hypothesis is referred to as the autochthonic theory (the Proto-Slavs are native to the area of modern Poland), while the other possibilities are known as allochthonic theory (the Slavs immigrated to the area of modern Poland during the Migration period).
This debate is politically charged,, particularly in connection with the history of the Partitions of Poland, and both German and Slavic nationalists have employed either the 'autochthonic' (in the case of the Slavic nationalists) or the 'allochthonic' (in the case of the German nationalists) as tools of political propaganda.
The debate of Slavic origins in general is often emotionally charged and interspersed with pseudoarchaeology and national mysticism.
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 Linguist List - Reviews Available for the Book
To achieve their goal, they use an anthropological approach, whereby the cultural influence on language is used to help delineate the semantic and lexical changes and the reasons behind them.
The study of a semantic domain (including its paradigmatic structure, its relationship to the pragmatic and communicative experience of the language's speakers, speakers' cultural ambience, frequency of use of the terms, etc.) derives in a large part, though not exclusively, from the works of ethnoscience and cognitive anthropology.
Second, she shows how context of language use can, in retrospect, be interpreted as hypothetical contexts of meaning introduction, and thus gives rise to new meanings of an old word -- depending on the historical, cultural, and social circumstances -- in a systematic fashion.
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German (Deutsch) is the official language in the cantons of Eupen and Sankt Vith.
Greek is the official State language: it consists of two branches, katharevousa, a conscious revival of classical Greek, used for official purposes and in newspapers, and demotiki, the spoken language.
Ladin is spoken in Bozen, Trentino and Belluno; Friulan (Furlan) is the language of Friuli in the northeast of the peninsula; Slovenian (Slovensko) is spoken in the provinces of Trieste, Gorizia and Udine.
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 Delicious Italy - termoli and Molise region southern italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
S.Felice del Molise, Montemitro and Acquaviva Collecroce are towns which still conserve their Slav and Croatian origins and indeed the language and customs are still clearly evident.
The people arrived here at the end of the 15th century to avoid the increasing Turkish dominance in their home country which was also expanding across the Balkans.
The parish of S.Felice del Molise or 'Sti Filic' is dedicated to S.Maria of Constantinople and dates to the 16th century.
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 GeoNative - Table Index
The language in the region Friuli-Venezia Guilia in northern Italy.
Jewish languages: Yiddish in Europe, and Karaim in Lithuania and Ukraine.
Slavic language in the Lusatia (Lausitz) area in eastern Germany.
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 The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples currently living in Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
They are defined by speaking Slavic languages and reside chiefly in Eastern Europe, but are also found in Asia.
The idea that the Slavic people have more in common than their origin, the origin of their languages and some cultural aspects is derived from romantic nationalism, the panslavism movement and the notion of race as a biological basis of nations
Basically, the East Slavs may all be traced to Slavic speaking populations that were organised as Kievan Rus beginning in the 9th century AD.
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 Serbian_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
The Serbian language (Српски језик or Srpski jezik) is one of the standard versions of the Štokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs everywhere.
Two alphabets are used in Serbian language: the Cyrillic and the Latin.
Three Serbian words that are used in many of the world's languages are vampire, paprika (borrowed via Hungarian), and slivovitz.
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 Croats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
, "Slavic" theory, in the 7th century, the Croatian tribe moved from the area north of the Carpathians and east of the river Vistula (referred to as White Croatia) and migrated into the western Dinaric Alps.
Croatian language has the longest written tradition of all South Slavic languages, with documents like Baška Tablet dating as early as 1100.
The modern standard language is based on ijekavian shtokavian dialect (like Serbian and Bosnian, with which it's mutually intelligible).
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 Ethnologue report for Italy
Population includes some of whom are native bilinguals of Italian and regional varieties, and some of whom may use Italian as second language.
Regional varieties coexist with the standard language; some are inherently unintelligible (Nida) to speakers of other varieties unless they have learned them.
Friulian, Ladin (in Italy), and Romansch (in Switzerland) are separate languages (R. Hall, Jr.
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 India, Indian States, India States, Indian hotels, Indian News and Indian Tourism, India Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Slavic settlers mixed with existing local populations and later invaders, thus modern Slavic peoples share few genetic traits.
Slavic peoples are traditionally divided along linguistic lines into West Slavic (including Czechs, Poles and Slovaks), East Slavic (including Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians), and South Slavic (including Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenians).
The first known historic Slavic people (Venedi, Sklavene and Anti) did identify themselves by "common ancestors and common blood" according to the 6th century historian Jordanes.
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 Vitality and Erosion Of Molise, Croatian Dialect
idiom Na-našo shows today many characteristics of a declining language: bilingualism, a prevalence of older, rural or uneducated native speakers, intense word borrowing from the encroaching langua­ge, a lack of standardization, and a shrinking sphere of language use.
century indicate predominant use of the Slavic language in the three Croatian villages, with a considerable proportion of Slavic monolinguals in addition to increasing bilinguals (Na-našo/Italian).
About 65% of the population report Na-našo as their mothertongue, for 10% the first langua­ge is local Molise dialect and for the remaining 26% it is the Italian language.' Among them, about 47% are trilingual, 17% bilingual using Italian and Na-našo, 11% bilingual using Italian and local Mo­lise dialect, while about 25% are monolin
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 Amazon.com: "neighboring languages": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The structural resemblance of the two languages and their contrast with the neighboring...
so more dramatically than other Slavic languages would seem to suggest that this development was due to the influence of neighboring languages having full-fledged articles.
Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics.
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 Portocannone, Campobasso - Molise - Italy
Italy > Region Molise > Province Campobasso > Comune PORTOCANNONE
First recorded inthe 11th century AD with the name of "Portocandesium", changed by 1320 into "Porto Canduni", this little town was heavily hit by the 1456 earthquake, that destroyed most of the houses killing half the population.
In the 16th century a Slavic community led by Giorgio Castriota Skanderberg was sent to populate the area, and still today there are traces in the tradition and language of this immigration.
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