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  2. Slavic languages - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Slovene dialects - Wikipedia

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    Slovene dialects are part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, transitioning into Serbo-Croatian Kajkavian dialect to the southeast and Chakavian dialect to the southwest, but also bordering Friulian and Italian to the west, German to the north, and Hungarian to the northeast.

  4. List of Balto-Slavic languages - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. History of the Slavic languages - Wikipedia

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    The South Slavic dialects used metathesis: the liquid and vowel switched places, and the vowels were lengthened to *ě and *a respectively. The East Slavic languages instead underwent a process known as pleophony: a copy of the vowel before the liquid consonant was inserted after it. However, *el became *olo rather than *ele.

  6. Slavic dialects of Greece - Wikipedia

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    The Slavic dialects of Greece are the Eastern South Slavic dialects of Macedonian and Bulgarian spoken by minority groups in the regions of Macedonia and Thrace in northern Greece. Usually, dialects in Thrace are classified as Bulgarian , while the dialects in Macedonia are classified as Macedonian , with the exception of some eastern dialects ...

  7. South Slavic languages - Wikipedia

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    The first South Slavic language to be written (also the first attested Slavic language) was the variety of the Eastern South Slavic spoken in Thessaloniki, now called Old Church Slavonic, in the ninth century. It is retained as a liturgical language in Slavic Orthodox churches in the form of various local Church Slavonic traditions. [citation ...

  8. Balto-Slavic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Slavic languages reflect well the thematic verbs of the 3rd person formants -t: -nt, something that cannot be found in the Baltic languages. [58] Unlike the Slavic languages, the Baltic languages use the suffix -no-to form participles. Unlike the Baltic languages, the Proto-Slavic language had a sigmatic aorist with the suffix -s-.

  9. Slovene language - Wikipedia

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    Slovene is an Indo-European language belonging to the Western subgroup of the South Slavic branch of the Slavic languages, together with Serbo-Croatian. It is close to the Chakavian and especially Kajkavian dialects of Serbo-Croatian, but genealogically more distant from the Shtokavian dialect , the basis for the Bosnian , Croatian ...