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	South Slavic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Slavic languages comprise one of the three groups of Slavic languages (besides West and East Slavic).
		Slovenians basically speak the same dialect, codified as Slovenian language, Croats speak three main and two exclaval dialects in four countries, while their standard language is based on Štokavian Ijekavian.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Slavic_languages (1772 words)

	Slavonic languages
		The Slovak literary language was formed on the basis of a Central Slovak dialect in the middle of the 19th century.
		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.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05slavoniclanguages.html (5789 words)

	Beissinger
		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.
		Alexander is a prominent South Slavic linguist at Berkeley whose tomes are comprehensive and linguistically sophisticated.
	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.
		The evolution of literary languages in Poland, Bohemia, and Slovakia was stymied by the domination of Latin as the language of worship.
		While Vuk Karadžić was fighting with the patriarch in Vojvodina for his attempts at ensuring a uniform literary and spoken language, inside Bulgaria the Church tried to establish firmly the Church Slavonic language as the literary language of the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slavic_languages (2080 words)

	Sample Entry: Language / Encyclopedia of Linguistics
		As with most Indo-European languages, the South Slavic group is characterized by many grammatical endings, with nouns and verbs changing form depending upon their position in the sentence, or their function as subjects or objects, singulars or plurals.
		Although Macedonian was codified as a standard language as recently as 1944, the beginnings of the contemporary language may be traced to the middle of the 19th century.
		The South Slavic languages represent a picture of great diversity among the Slavic languages, and, as they are located at a crossroads of European languages and cultures, have been affected by contacts with numerous languages.
	www.strazny.com /encyclopedia/sample-language.html (1627 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for South Slavic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Church Slavonic CHURCH SLAVONIC [Church Slavonic] language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages).
		It is bordered by the Czech Republic in the west, by Austria in the southwest, by Hungary in the south, by Ukraine in the east, and by Poland in the
		Language and nationality in the lands of former Yugoslavia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=South+Slavic+languages (709 words)

	The most common questions - Department of Slavonic Studies - University of Nottingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This allows students to devote a major part of their time to language studies, including the acquisition of a new Slavonic language but this flexibility can be used so as to put the emphasis on literature.
		Language is taught in groups of appropriate size - up to twenty in the language laboratory down to oral classes of seven or so students.
		He is the Department's specialist in Slavonic linguistics and he is one of Britain's leading experts in South Slavonic languages.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /slavonic/general/question.html (3537 words)

	Slavic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The South Slavic tongues consist of Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, and Macedonian, together with the liturgical language known as Church Slavonic.
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sl/Slavicla.html (917 words)

	European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL) - AFS in Europe
		No language is in itself more difficult than any other - all children, in fact, learn their mother tongue in the same natural way and with equal ease.
		Languages are constantly in contact with each other and affect each other in many ways: English borrowed words and expressions from many other languages in the past, European languages are now borrowing many words from English.
		Languages are related to each other like the members of a family.
	efil.afs.org /new/news16.htm (353 words)

	TNP2 Languages
		Each stage is usually further divided into study modules such as language skills, literature, linguistics etc. Some ‘core’ courses are compulsory but the student can also choose some of the courses according to his or her interests and orientation, especially in intermediate and advanced studies.
		The Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Helsinki has integrated lectures given by internationally acclaimed visiting scholars, critics and authors into the curriculum by giving students the opportunity to gain credits by attending the lectures, which preferably form intensive courses, and writing an essay or commentary on them.
		The reason for increasing basic language skills courses is the fact that in some languages the students’ skills at entering the programmes have weakened (see 1.2.).
	www.eng.helsinki.fi /main/dept/tnp2-report.htm (3590 words)

	politikforum - Thema: Bulgarian And Macedonian
		The issue of the Macedonian language, in official use as separate literary language in the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia since 1944 (about 1.5 million speakers), is heavily charged with political emotions on the part of Bulgaria, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia, and has to be approached carefully.
		Middle Bulgarian was a transitional stage during which the language underwent crucial changes leading to its emergence as a 'Balkan' language with analytic characteristics; owing to the strong tradition of the liturgical literature, however the actual changes found in the vernaculars were hardly reflected in the manuscripts.
		Both the Old Bulgarian literary language of the ninth century and the Modern Bulgarian literary language of the nineteenth century were initiated in the western or 'Macedonian' territories.
	www.politikforum.de /forum/showthread.php?threadid=48148 (2616 words)

	Slavonic Languages and Cultures: Degree requirements (2003-2005)
		West and South Slavonic Languages and Cultures is in charge of instruction and research of West and South Slavonic languages and cultures and general slavistics; Russian (and to some extent other East Slavonic languages) is studied under Russian Language and Literature.
		A student majoring in West and South Slavonic Languages and Cultures is required to prove their proficiency also in Russian and/or German language, either by a language test or by completing basic studies in Russian Language and Literature, Russian Translation Studies, German Philology or German Translation Studies.
		A final paper from a student with Slavonic languages and cultures as their major subject can be accepted as a Bachelor's Thesis and as the basis for a Maturity Test in preparation for a Bachelor's Degree.
	www.helsinki.fi /hum/slav/eng/studies/vsl_tuva_en.htm (2188 words)

	13. mednarodni slavistični kongres Ljubljana 2003 - English
		Language planning and language policy in countries with a Slavonic language as official language.
		The position of the Slavonic 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 Slavonic languages.
	www.ff.uni-lj.si /slovjez/kongres_eng.html (2272 words)

	Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
		Three subjects – Russian Language and Literature, West and South Slavonic Languages and Cultures and Baltic Languages and Cultures – are all available for undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Helsinki as both major and minor subjects.
		The West and South Slavonic Languages and Cultures study programme consists of Polish Language and Culture, Czech Language and Culture, and Southeast European Studies (Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian) programmes: in practice these are all separate subjects.
		Also students of West and South Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Cultures are required to study a minimum of one semester in their target country for their MA degree.
	www.slav.helsinki.fi /eng/info.htm (976 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		The dialect spoken in Austria, an official regional language, is not in direct geographical contact with speakers in Slovenia, and is highly influenced by German.
		Slovenians, who look upon their own language as a cultural icon and national treasure, have been and are concerned about the impact of Serbian/Croatian on their own language.
		There is a Language Arbitration Tribunal which advises the public mainly through articles in newspapers and periodicals on the appropriate use of language.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=48 (1052 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Slavic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SLAVIC LANGUAGES [Slavic languages] also called Slavonic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
		All Slavic tongues are believed to have evolved from a single parent language, usually called Proto-Slavic, which, in turn, is thought to have split off much earlier (possibly c.2000 BC) from Proto-Indo-European, the original ancestor of the members of the Indo-European language family.
		AD; the oldest Slavic texts to survive are in Old Church Slavonic and belong to the 10th and 11th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Slavicla.asp (1086 words)

	Old Church Slavonic Online
		Likewise, South Slavic retains the nasal ę in the accusative plural of ja-stem nouns, whereas in East and West Slavic the nasality is lost.
		It is often assumed that the language is the same as that which was spoken in the centuries preceding the work of Cyril and Methodius; but by the time of the extant manuscripts were written, the actual spoken language was beginning to diverge from the written language.
		The South Slavs and West Slavs maintained contact over the region of Pannonia, but this was cut off with the advent of the Hungarians in the 9th Century AD and the eastward expansion of the Germans.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/centers/lrc/eieol/ocsol-0.html (1672 words)

	General Resources for Slavic Linguistics
		The content is arranged by broad subject categories such as the languages of the Slavs with subsections by language branch, the literatures of the Slavs, again subdivided by branch, and Slavic and Germano-Slavic onomastics.
		After each root table, which shows words derived from the root in each of the 4 languages with exact equivalents given on the same line in each of the columns, there is an explanation of the meaning of the root and derivational notes on some of the words in the table.
		It presents the grammar of each language in the same format beginning with an introduction on the development of the literary language and then covers the alphabet, pronunciation, Slavonic characteristics, features characteristic of each language, dialects, morphology, etc. The third edition is published in three separate volumes, one for each Slavic language branch.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/SubjectResources/SubSourGen/linggen.htm (6206 words)

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		The other inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula are, to the south of the Slavs, the Albanians in the west, the Greeks in the centre and south, and the Turks in the south-east, and, to the north, the Rumanians.
		At the end of the eighth century the Bulgars south of the Danube joined forces with those to the north in the efforts of the latter against the Avars, who, beaten by Charlemagne, were again pressing south-eastwards towards the Danube.
		They composed the Slavonic alphabet which is to-day used throughout Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro, and in many parts of Austria-Hungary and translated the gospels into Slavonic; it is for this reason that they are regarded with such veneration by all members of the Eastern Church.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/11716/11716-8.txt (17215 words)

	PART - Online Information article about PART
		Slavonic peoples the same word bogu distinguishes the deity; since this points to See also:
		The language, even, is markedly different from the Persian; and the fire-priests are not styled Magians as in Persia—the word indeed never occurs in the Avesta, except in a single late passage—but athravan, identical with the atharvan of India (rupatboy " fire-kindlers," in See also:
		BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PART.html (6477 words)

	SLOVENE MONO- AND MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE TERMINOLOGY
		The official language is Slovene, a branch of the South Slavonic languages, using the Latin alphabet.
		Despite a very strong and steady influence of the German language in the l9th and early 20th century, and of the English technical literature and terminology of today, Slovene technical terms of library and information science have developed, survived and proved their worthiness.
		Up to the end of 1992 the first redaction of the multilingual dictinary in four languages (Slovene, English, German and French) was accomplished, defining some 3.000 technical terms, and working material comprising some 9.000 terms was prepared and published as the basis for elaboration of the repertory for further processing of the dictionary.
	www2.arnes.si /~ljnuk4/vilnius.html (2516 words)

	Slavonic Languages and Cultures
		The subject West and South Slavonic Languages and Cultures offers a choice of three alternative programmes: Polish Language and Culture, Czech Language and Culture, and Southeast European Studies (Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian languages and cultures).
		However, international applicants should note that Finnish is the main language of instruction at the department.
		To obtain the right to study West and South Slavonic Languages and Cultures the student needs to pass an entrance examination.
	www.helsinki.fi /hum/slav/eng/studies/slavonic.htm (166 words)

	Sll 599: Comparative Slavic Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		cover the basics of the grammar of the modern and extinct Slavic languages with an emphasis on the similarities and differences between the various members of this language family.
		Selected topics in the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the Slavic languages will be examined in more detail from a comparative perspective.
		The final paper should be a comparative study of two or more languages from different subgroups of Slavic, in the area of phonology, morphology, or syntax, and on a topic different from that of any of the three short papers.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~pancheva/Syllabus.htm (575 words)

	Безѹмниѥ » Blog Archive » Slavonic false friends
		I often marvel at how close the Slavonic languages remain to each other in spite of 1500 years of individual development.
		Yet, others can be large enough to confuse the speaker of one language reading a text in another without much training in it, like живот meaning “life” in Bulgarian and “belly, body” in Russian, and плът, historically meaning “flesh” and retaining that meaning in Russian and Bulgarian, now means “fence” in many South Slavonic languages.
		This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 7th, 2005 at 19:17 and is filed under Slavonic languages.
	www.christopherculver.com /ignorance?p=75 (483 words)

	Regional Names in the Central and Eastern Parts of the Balkan Peninsula - Peter Koledarov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The settlements were grouped mainly in the plains of the Maritsa Valley and in the long run, thanks to its numbers, the Slavonic population that had penetrated into ancient Thrace also, took the upper hand.
		It assimilated the poorer strata of the indigenous population and of the emigrants from the East.
		This name would have been widely used in the spoken language, by the people and for this reason it was adopted by the authorities as well.
	www.kroraina.com /knigi/en/pk/pkoled.html (6918 words)

	My Women and The Even Greater Gatsby \| Text-Only (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For his first book, My Women, the author got the Slovenian Book Fair's award for the best first work in 1988/89; you are welcome to read some of the stories from the book - in four different languages.
		The book is now available for reading and free downloading in different formats.
		Plus two stories in Croatian language and two in English.
	www.ljudmila.org /lenardic/tx/tx_english.html (165 words)

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