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	Beissinger
		Alexander is a prominent South Slavic linguist at Berkeley whose tomes are comprehensive and linguistically sophisticated.
		Serbo-Croatian is the language spoken in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Montenegro.
		Language tapes made years ago to accompany Magner were re-recorded in 1997 and now present a more versatile handling of the lesson materials, including separate Serbian and Croatian versions, as well as a version in which both are employed for comparison.
	www.slavica.com /teaching/Beissinger.html (6076 words)

	Slavic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.
		A planned language called Slovio also exists: constructed on the basis of Slavic languages, and intended to facilitate intercommunication between people each of whom already speak at least one Slavic language.
		The Romanian and Hungarian languages witness the influence of the neighboring Slavic nations, especially in the vocabulary pertaining to crafts and trade; the major cultural innovations at times when few long-range cultural contacts took place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slavic_languages (1614 words)

	Yat - Open Encyclopedia
		The letter is no longer used in the standard modern orthography of any of the Slavic languages written with the Cyrillic alphabet, although it survives in liturgical and church texts written in the Russian recension of Church Slavonic, and has since 1991 found some favour in advertising.
		In the modern Latin alphabet (Czech language and scientific transliteration for old Slavic languages) the letter is represented by "e with caron": ě.
		In the Russian language, confusion between the yat and e in writing occurs from the earliest records, but when exactly the final disappearance of the original sound from all dialects took place is a topic of scientific debate.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Yat (546 words)

	Proto-Slavic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		No Proto-Slavic writings have been found, so the language has been reconstructed from a comparison of all the attested Slavic languages and of other Indo-European languages.
		In the 5th or 6th century, Slavic tribes began to migrate in the wake of the Germanic migration period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proto-Slavic (1560 words)

	UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Ukrainian (ÑÐºÑÐ°Ñ—ÌÐ½ÑÑÐºÐ° Ð¼Ð¾ÌÐ²Ð°, ''ukrayinsâka mova'') is the language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic_languages.
		The Ukrainian language in and prior to the 18th century had been used mostly by peasants and petty bourgeois and though it was in no danger of extinction, to become a language of ''belle-lettres'', philosophy and science, it had to be hoisted from the level of the everyday to the level of the sublime.
		The literary language is based on the dialect of the Poltava region, with heavy influence of the dialect spoken in the west, notably Galicia (Halychyna).
	www.splammer.com /?req=ukrainian_language (5147 words)

	Molise Slavic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Molise Slavic language is a Slavic dialect spoken in the Molise region in Italy.
		The existence of this Slavic colony was unknown outside Italy until 1855 when Medo Pucić, a linguist from Dubrovnik, during one of his journeys in Italy overheard a tailor in Naples speaking with his wife in a language very similar to Pucić's own.
		The language was preserved until today only in the aforementioned three villages, although several villages in Molise and Abruzzo region are aware of their Slavic ancestry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Molise_Slavic_language (416 words)

	Encyclopedia: Slavic peoples
		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.
		The Balto-Slavic language group is a hypothetical language group consisting of the Baltic and Slavic language subgroups of the Indo-European family.
		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 USSR dominated by Russians, and as such despised by rest of conquered nations.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Slavic-peoples (6507 words)

	Albanian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Languages sharing a common origin with Tosk are spoken by the Arbëreshë of Italy and among the Arvanites of Greece.
		Albanian or Gjuha shqipe is a language spoken by more than six million inhabitants of the western Balkan peninsula (Albania, Serbia and Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Greece) in south-eastern Europe (Albanians) and in numerous villages in Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, southern Italy and on the island of Sicily.
		Albanian, in the Tosk dialect, is the official language of Albania.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Albanian_language (979 words)

	South Slavic languages - Information
		The so-called Molise Slavic language is a dialect spoken in three villages of the Italian region of Molise by the descendants of South Slavs who migrated there from the eastern Adriatic coast in the 15th century.
		South Slavic languages is one of the three groups of Slavic languages (besides West and East Slavic).
		This language is spoken in Italy, not in Balkans.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/South_Slavic_languages (1646 words)

	South Slavic
		Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures A department in the Division of Humanities offering programs in Balto-Slavic Linguistics, Czech, General Slavic, Polish, Russian and South Slavic.
		Slavs and Slavic World Information about Slavic history and the development of the languages (especially Slovak).
		South Slavic Library Collection of poems and excerpts, guides on using ISO-8859-2 and Unicode encoding standards with HTML documents, forum, and reference to other web resources.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-South_Slavic.html (317 words)

	South Slavic languages - Open Encyclopedia
		South Slavic languages is one of the three groups of Slavic languages (besides West and East Slavic).
		The South Slavic languages are further subdivided into Eastern and Western groups.
		There are around 30 million speakers of these languages, mainly in the Balkans.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /South_Slavic (70 words)

	The Slavic Ethnogenesis
		The Proto-Slavic language was probably still common to all Slavs possibly as late as the 8th century AD, but by the 9th century AD, with the mass-migrations largely completed, the individual Slavic languages had begun to take place.
		In 1833, the Slavic languages were identified and categorised as an Indo-European language by linguists.
		Also, it is said that one you who speaks 'Slovakian', has the easiest time understanding the rest of the Slavic languages, as they are in the middle of the Slavic sea; one of the biggest 'human ethnographic seas', on the face of this earth.
	www.users.bigpond.net.au /agbdesign/slavic (4852 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Molise Croats
		They have not been influenced by the romantic nationalism of the 19th century, so they have come to refer to their language merely as "Slavic".
		Molise Croatian has some connections to Croatian, and is considered to be a diaspora language due to the many differences.
		Molise Croats or Molise Slavs are a Croatian subgroup, found in the Molise region of Italy.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Molise_Croats (359 words)

	C-Slav223
		The course is not envisioned as an introduction especially to the history of the South Slavic languages.
		Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 223: Introduction to the South Slavic Languages
		The purpose of the presentation will be to encourage students to explore the literature on topics in South Slavic linguistics, to familiarize themselves with the state of knowledge on these topics, and to acquaint the remaining students with their chosen topics.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/slavic/html/c-slav223.html (309 words)

	UofC Slavic Department: Bogdan Rakić
		South Slavic S101/S501 Elementary Serbian and Croatian I
		South Slavic S201/S503 Intermediate Serbian and Croatian I
		South Slavic S102/S502 Elementary Serbian and Croatian II
	humanities.uchicago.edu /depts/slavic/rakic.html (1311 words)

	The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
		The prerequisites for admission are a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent and a knowledge of written and spoken Russian or of another Slavic language in which the department offers advanced courses sufficient for graduate work—usually equivalent to four years of college study.
		Students in Slavic linguistics will be required to demonstrate a reading knowledge of two additional Slavic languages, so that East, West, and South Slavic languages are all represented.
		The comprehensive examination is given in the following areas: (1) History of the literature in the principal language of specialization and (2) the literature of the second Slavic language or Slavic Linguistics.
	catalogs.uchicago.edu /divisions/slav.html (1287 words)

	Writing Systems (from Slavic languages) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The Slavic languages are most closely related to the languages of the Baltic group (Lithuanian, Latvian, and the now-extinct Old Prussian), but they share certain linguistic innovations with the other eastern Indo-European...
		The Slavic languages are a group of related languages within the Indo-European family.
		A language family that covers a broad geographical region and a vast historical period, the Semitic language group is part of an even larger language family known as Afro-Asiatic, or Hamito-Semitic.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-208122?tocId=208122 (766 words)

	South Slavic Collections: Overviews of the Collections (European Reading Room, Libraryof Congress)
		In regard to the political history and economic condition of the peoples of former Yugoslavia, the Library has almost everything published in the languages of these peoples since World War II, as well as important books on these subjects in English and other West European languages.
		The arts of the South Slavic area, because of its complicated history and culture, reflect a wide spectrum of Eastern and Western influences.
		Works in science and technology from South Slavic countries are mainly represented by works from various scientific institutions in Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia, as well as materials from numerous international conferences held in this part of the world.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/coll/slav.html (2166 words)

	Yugoslavia article - Yugoslavia south Slavic languages 20th century Slavs kingdom 1918 Kingdom - What-Means.com
		Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate political entities that existed during most of the 20th century.
		The first was a kingdom formed in 1918 as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was re-named the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929 and existed under that name until it was invaded in 1941 by the Axis powers.
		Translated, the name means Land of the South Slavs (jug in Jugoslavija means south).
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Yugoslavia (318 words)

	ipedia.com: South Slavic languages Article
		South Slavic languages is one of the three groups of Slavic languages (besides West and East Slavic).
		South Slavic languages is one of the three groups of Slavic languages.
		South Slavic languages are further divided in Eastern and Western section.
	www.ipedia.com /south_slavic_languages.html (130 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		Slavic languages (with the Baltic languages--Latvian and Lithuanian) form a branch of the Indo-European language family.
		Other languages spoken in Macedonia include Albanian--which is spoken throughout Western Macedonia and which is the majority language in the cities of that region--and Turkish, the main language of the Muslim minority.
		While it is the norm in all areas of public life, Serbian/Croatian (often a second language for many Macedonians) and local dialect forms continue to exert an influence on the language, especially those in the Western dialect area, which is the basis for the standard.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=42 (1429 words)

	Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
		Slavic languages; languages of northern Eurasia, particularly languages of the Caucasus.
		Teaching: South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Macedonian, BCS [Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian]) and literatures (Bulgaria and lands of former Yugoslavia); Slavic linguistics (with emphasis on South Slavic); Slavic & East European folklore (with emphasis on South Slavic and the theory of oral composition); Yugoslav cultural history (the rise and fall of Yugoslavia).
		The linguistic and cultural prehistory of the Eurasian steppe and adjacent areas; interaction of the Slavic and North Caucasian languages with steppe languages.
	ls.berkeley.edu /dept/slavic/faculty.html (5242 words)

	Untitled Document
		Language planning and language policy in countries with a Slavic language as official language.
		The position of the Slavic languages in the world of contemporary communication and technology and the question of multilingualism.
		The coexistence of the standard language and non-standard variants in the Slavic languages.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~slavic/acs/themes.html (553 words)

	Balto-Slavic languages
		The Balto-Slavic language group is a hypothetical language group consisting of the Baltic and Slavic language subgroups of the Indo-European family.
		Baltic and Slavic languages were not written down until 15th and 9th centuries A.D.; thus, the historical record tracing the development of the languages is limited.
		Szemerényi in his 1957 re-examination of Meillet's results concludes that the Balts and Slavs did, in fact, share a "period of common language and life", and were probably separated due to the incursion of Germanic tribes along the Vistula and the Dnepr roughly at the beginning of the Common Era.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Balto-Slavic-languages.htm (564 words)

	IELan7
		The Slavic languages developed late, not diverging from proto-Slavic until the beginning of the period of Slavic expansion from around 400 to 900 CE.
		Slavic is not attested to until the missionaries Cyril and Methodi devised the Cyrillic alphabet in the ninth century CE.
		Although a Baltic language is not attested to until the sixteenth century CE, historical and place-name evidence indicates a Baltic presence for well over a millenium.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/jmstitt/Eng480/IndoEuropean/IEL7/IEL7.html (183 words)

	Rus: An Early History
		Slavic languages are a sub-family of the Indo-European family of languages.
		It was in the 9th Century AD that individual Slavic languages (actually at that point dialects) began to emerge.
		The total number of people who speak a Slavic language as their mother tongue is estimated at more than 300+ million, the vast majority of whom live in Russia, Belorus & Ukraine.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/18592/106869 (577 words)

	Proto-Balto-Slavic -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Proto-Balto-Slavic is a hypothetical language from which the (additional info and facts about Baltic) Baltic and (A branch of the Indo European family of language) Slavic languages emerged.
		There is also a contemporary hypothesis that proposes the Slavic languages developed from the Baltic languages.
		The actual existence of such a Proto-Balto-Slavic language is fiercely debated, but the linguists who support it seem to outnumber those who refute it.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/proto-balto-slavic2.htm (80 words)

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