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	Slavonic languages
		The separate development of South Slavic was caused by a break in the links between the Balkan and the West Slavic groups that resulted from the settling of the Magyars in Hungary during the 10th century and from the Germanization of the Slavic regions of Bavaria and Austria.
		The comparatively early rise of the West Slavic (and the westernmost South Slavic) languages as separate literary vehicles was related to a variety of religious and political factors that resulted in the decline of the western variants of the Church Slavonic language.
		In the middle of the 17th century, the old Great Russian variant of the Church Slavonic language in the official Orthodox Church was replaced by a new variant taken from the southwestern East Slavic tradition, a form that incorporated some Ukrainian and Belarusian elements.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05slavoniclanguages.html (5789 words)

	East Slavic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When the common Old East Slavic language became separated from the ancient Slavic tongue common to all Slavs is difficult to ascertain (6th–11th century).
		The history of the East Slavic languages is a very 'hot' subject, because it is interpreted from various political perspectives by the East Slavs "like all mortals, wishing to have an origin as ancient as possible" ("sicut ceteri mortalium, originem suam quam vetustissimam ostendere cupientes"), as Aeneas Sylvius observed in his Historia Bohemica in 1458.
		The first divergence among the Old East Slavic texts is evident during the 12th century, during the era of Kievan Rus', i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Slavic_languages (1185 words)

	Old Russian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Old East Slavic language was the language of Kievan Rus', spoken from the 9th to 14th centuries.
		It was the ancestor of the East Slavic languages Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian.
		For the language of Muscovite Russia in the 15th to 17th centuries, see the Muscovite section of History of the Russian language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Russian_language (135 words)

	SLAVIC LANGUAGES. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Grammatically the Slavic languages, with the exception of Bulgarian and Macedonian, have a highly developed inflection of the noun, with up to seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, instrumental, and vocative).
		Members of the Slavic subfamily are more conservative and thus closer to Proto-Indo-European than languages in the Germanic and Romance groups, as is witnessed by their preservation of seven of the eight cases for the noun that Proto-Indo-European possessed and by their continuation of aspects for the verb.
		Some Slavic languages (notably, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Polish) are written in differing versions of the Roman alphabet because their speakers are predominantly Roman Catholic.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/sl/Slavicla.html (868 words)

	Ukrainian_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		According to this view, Old East Slavic diverged into Byelorusian and Ukrainian to the west (collectively, the Ruthenian language of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries), and Old Russian to the north-east, after the political boundaries of Kievan Rusâ were redrawn in the fourteenth century.
		The literary Ukrainian language, which was preceded by Old East Slavic literature, may be subdivided into three stages: old Ukrainian (twelfth to fourteenth centuries), middle Ukrainian (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries), and modern Ukrainian (end of the eighteenth century to the present).
		Rusin language of the BaÄka dialect is one of the official languages of the Serbian Autonomous Province of Vojvodina).
	www.school-explorer.com /Ukrainian (7076 words)

	Qwika - similar:Russian_language
		The Church Slavonic language (Bulgarian: църковнославянски език, tsarkovnoslavyanski ezik; Macedonian: црковнословенски јазик, tsrkovnoslovenski yazik; Russian: церковнославя́нский язы́к, tserkovnoslavyánskiy yazík) is the liturgical language of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church...
		The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.
		Historically, the dominating position in Russia is occupied by the Russian culture, the culture of Russian language and Russian nationality; this is partly because Russians constitute the vast majority of the population in...
	www.qwika.com /rels/Russian_language (1430 words)

	Common Slavic language
		Balto-Slavic language community is believed to be the last to break into two single branches, that's why Baltic and Slavic languages are even now very similar to each other (e.g.
		Slavic phonetics is enormously rich with vowel and consonant interchanges, and Russian children still cry at school trying to remember all them (believe me).
		Slavic language had seven cases, three genders and three numbers.
	members.tripod.com /babaev/tree/slavic.html (561 words)

	Slavic Languages
		Slavic languages is a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
		The Slavic group of languages seems to be closer to the Baltic group than to any other, that si why some scholars combine the two in a Balto-Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European languages.
		So far as is known, no writing in a Slavic language was preserved from the 9th century A.D.; the oldest Slavic texts to survive are in Old Church Slavonic and belong to the 10th and 11th century.
	www.slavism.com /slavic (815 words)

	Ukrainian language information - Search.com
		Before the eighteenth century the precursor to the modern Ukrainian language was a vernacular language used mostly by peasants and petit bourgeois, existing side-by-side with a literary language of foreign origin, the Church Slavonic evolved from the Old Slavonic language from Bulgaria.
		According to this view, Old East Slavic diverged into Belarusian and Ukrainian to the west (collectively, the Ruthenian language of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries), and Old Russian to the north-east, after the political boundaries of Kievan Rus’ were redrawn in the fourteenth century.
		The literary Ukrainian language, which was preceded by Old East Slavic literature, may be subdivided into three stages: old Ukrainian (twelfth to fourteenth centuries), middle Ukrainian (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries), and modern Ukrainian (end of the eighteenth century to the present).
	www.search.com /reference/Ukrainian_language (6761 words)

	Russian
		Prior to the 14th century, ancestors of the modern Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians spoke varieties of Old East Slavic -- a language that was common to all three.
		The official language in Russia remained an East Slavic version of Church Slavonic, the liturgical language of the Russian Orthodox Church, until the end of the 17th century.
		Russian is the official language of Russia, and an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (in Ukraine) and the unrecognized Moldovan Republic of Transnistria.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/russian.html (1407 words)

	Old East Slavic language - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some modern Slavic languages (Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Polish) are written in the Latin alphabet, and their speakers are predominantly Roman...
		Polabian, Western Slavic language once spoken in a large area of eastern Germany in the neighborhood of the Elbe River, which included the regions...
		Ukrainian Language, one of the three East Slavic languages; the other two are Russian and Belarusian.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Old+East+Slavic+language (229 words)

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		It is considered an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a complex system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary which indicate the relative status of speaker and listener.
		It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and co-official with Chinese in the Chinese S.A.R. of Macau and Tetum in East Timor.
		It is extensively used as a second language and as an official language in many other countries, and is the most widely taught and understood language in the world, often earning it the title 'the language of trade, academia and diplomacy'.
	www.b2basics.co.uk (3433 words)

	Introduction & Abbreviations
		Arabic, the Semitic language of the Arabs and the language of Islam.
		O.H.G. Old High German, the ancestor of the modern literary German language, spoken in the upland regions of Germany; German language as written and spoken from the earliest period to c.1100.
		O.N. Old Norse, the Norwegian language as written and spoken c.100 to 1500 C.E., the relevant phase of it being "Viking Norse" (700-1100), the language spoken by the invaders and colonizers of northern and eastern England c.875-950.
	www.etymonline.com /abbr.php (3129 words)

	Slavic Languages and Literatures
		Students in the linguistics option have a good understanding of Slavic languages in general and the language of their specialization in particular, as well as knowledge of major issues in contemporary phonology, morphology, and syntax.
		The particular language may be negotiated by the student with his or her advisor on the basis of the research interests of the student.
		One of the Field examinations may be in a third Slavic language or in a field from another department at the university.
	www.washington.edu /students/gencat/academic/slavic.html (1688 words)

	The Origin of the Lithuanian Language
		One of the oldest attested forms of the Italic language branch is Latin, the oldest attested form of Greek is Mycenean Creek, the oldest attested form of Indo-lranian is Vedic Sanskrit, the oldest attested form of Slavic is Old Church Slavic.
		Old Church Slavic, also known as Old Bulgarian, is an extinct South Slavic language which was used by the Slavic missionaries Cyril and Methodius to propagate the Christian faith.
		The language of the Bible was the basis and model used by all authors in the 17th and 18th centuries; it influenced the choice of lexical items and syntactic constructions, and the use of Biblical idiomatic utterances; this translation also served to stabilize the" orthography.
	www.lituanus.org /1982_1/82_1_01.htm (5833 words)

	Indiana University Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
		The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University was first organized in 1947 as the Department of Slavic Studies under the leadership of Michael Ginsburg, the university's first professor of Russian.
		The department's Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL) remains the largest such program in the United States, offering students the opportunity to complete a full year of college language instruction during a single eight-week summer session for reduced tuition rates.
		The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is located in Ballantine Hall, near the center of the IU-Bloomington campus.
	www.indiana.edu /~iuslavic (329 words)

	Languages : Indo-European Family
		Languages that are scattered around the world as their speakers are part of diasporas.
		The Slavic languages are famed for their consonant clusters and large number of cases for nouns (up to seven).
		Lithuanian is one of the oldest of the Indo-European languages.
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_indoeuro.html (1875 words)

	Proto-Slavic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Old Church Slavonic is not identical to Proto-Slavic, having been recorded at least two centuries after the breakup of Proto-Slavic, and it shows features that clearly distinguish it from Proto-Slavic.
		There, their early South Slavic dialect used for the translations was clearly understandable to the local population which spoke an early West Slavic dialect.
		It is generally acknowledged that of the various languages which left their mark on the early lexical stock, Germanic occupies a pivotal position, and many early Germanic loanwords into Proto-Slavic are known.
	enc.qba73.com /link-Proto-Slavic_language (1962 words)

	Common Slavic language grammar
		Slavic settlements of that period of time show little fortification, they were situated mainly along the rivers near the forest where Slavs could hunt, fish and cultivate the land.
		And finally in the 5th century the migration of Slavic tribes to the west and south, following the fall of the Roman Empire, put an end to the Common Slavic, and since then three branches of it began their separate development in the south, in the west, in the east.
		Common Slavic is reconstructed and based on comparative studies of all Slavic languages, both ancient and modern.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /project/grammar/grammar31.html (3408 words)

	New York University \| Bobst Library: Slavic Studies
		Emphasis is on all historical periods from the beginning of Slavic culture to the present, with particular emphasis given to the period since the break-up of the Soviet Union.
		Slavic topics in anthropology and ethnology are emerging areas of interest.
		Most Slavic materials from the 1950s and earlier are brittle because of the poor quality paper traditionally used in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
	library.nyu.edu /collections/policies/slavic.html (1794 words)

	Slavic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Members of the East Slavic branch are Russian, or Great Russian; Ukrainian, also called Little Russian or Ruthenian; and Belarusian, or White Russian.
		Other Slavic languages (such as Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian) use variations of the Cyrillic alphabet as a result of the influence of the Orthodox Eastern Church.
		Serbo-Croatian has several dialects, the most important of which are Serbian, which is written with the Cyrillic alphabet, and Croatian, which is written with the Roman alphabet.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sl/Slavicla.html (917 words)

	Yale > Slavic Languages & Literatures > Faculty
		Yale > Slavic Languages and Literatures > Faculty
		M.Phil.1972, Ph.D. 1978, Yale University, Slavic Languages and Literatures
		All aspects of medieval Slavic philology and culture, especially the Cyrillo-Methodian heritage, the East-Slavic chronicle patrimony, and premodern Ruthenian (Ukrainian) literature in the age of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation.
	www.yale.edu /slavic/faculty/goldblatt.html (260 words)

	Ruthenian language resources
		Old East Slavic language Old Russian language Proto-Slavic language Russian language Ruthenian language Rusin language Rusyn language (including Pannonian Rusyn or Rusnak, and Carpatho-Rusyn) Slavic languages...
		Ruthenian was a historic East Slavic language, spoken after 1569 in the East Slavic territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
		Having evolved from the Old East Slavic language, Ruthenian was the ancestor of modern Belarusian.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Ruthenian.html (1252 words)

	REESC @ the University of Oregon
		Traditionally, graduate students in Slavic linguistics take a series of courses on Old Church Slavonic, an introduction to the Slavic languages, the historical development of Russian, and Russian morphology and phonology.
		As in other fields of concentration, students will be expected to pass a master’s exam in Slavic linguistics (typically in the winter quarter of the second year) and to write a thesis (typically the subsequent spring).
		Research areas include medieval Bulgarian, Serbian, and East Slavic liturgical manuscripts; sociolinguistics, particularly multiple linguistic and cultural self-identities within multilingual ethnic/confessional minorities (case study of the Russian Germans of Poland and Lithuania); and modern Bulgarian syntax.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~reesc/grad-fields-slavic.html (170 words)

	Slavic Languages and Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Slavic Folklore: The Slavic and East European world is vividly represented by rich and varied oral traditions and folklore—from traditional verbal and musical genres to age-old, as well as contemporary, life cycle and calendrical-cycle rituals, expressions, and celebrations.
		Center for Jewish Studies that explore the intersection of Slavic and Jewish cultures in Eastern Europe and Russia.
		Second Language Acquisition: Graduate student in Slavic at UW-Madison can choose to minor in second language acquisition, an interdisciplinary program with courses taught in a broad range of departments including English, Curriculum and Instruction (School of Education), French and Italian, German, and others.
	polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /slavic/relatedprograms.htm (423 words)

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