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The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic ...
Proto-Balto-Slavic language; Slavic. Proto-Slavic; Old Church Slavonic, liturgical; Knaanic, Jewish language; Old Novgorod dialect; Old East Slavic, developed into modern East Slavic languages; Old Ruthenian; Polabian language; Pomeranian language, only Kashubian remains as a living dialect; South Slavic dialects used in medieval Greece; Baltic ...
The Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages. Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European branch, [ 3 ] which points to a period of common development and origin.
The dictionary was conceived in the 1950s with the inadequacy of the existing Slavic etymological dictionaries in mind. [1] Since 1961 the preparations began for the dictionary under the direction of Oleg Trubachev at the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the USSR. [2]
The first continuous texts date from the late 9th century AD and were written in Old Church Slavonic—the first Slavic literary language, based on the South Slavic dialects spoken around Thessaloniki in Greek Macedonia—as part of the Christianization of the Slavs by Saints Cyril and Methodius and their followers. Because these texts were ...
Slavic literature or Slavonic literature refers to the literature in any of the Slavic languages: Belarusian literature; Bosnian literature;
The following list is a comparison of basic Proto-Slavic vocabulary and the corresponding reflexes in the modern languages, for assistance in understanding the discussion in Proto-Slavic and History of the Slavic languages. The word list is based on the Swadesh word list, developed by the linguist Morris Swadesh, a tool to study the evolution ...
1670 – Juraj Habdelić, Dictionar ili rechi slovenske z vexega ukup ebrane (Dictionary of Slavic words brought together, Kajkavian). 1700 (cca.) – Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Lexicon Latino-Illyricum (a manuscript Latin-Illyrian dictionary in which the author carried out in practice his views on the language and spelling).