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Slavonic languages
Key People:
Roman Jakobson
Josef Dobrovský
August Leskien
Pavel Josef Šafařík
Nikolay Sergeyevich Trubetskoy
Related Topics:
Old Church Slavonic language
South Slavic languages
West Slavic languages
East Slavic languages
Proto-Slavic language
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Slavic languages, group of Indo-European languages spoken in most of eastern Europe, much of the Balkans, parts of central Europe, and the northern part of Asia. The Slavic languages, spoken by some 315 million people at the turn of the 21st century, 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 language groups (such as Indo-Iranian and Armenian) as well. From their homeland in east-central Europe (Poland or Ukraine), the Slavic languages have spread to the territory of the Balkans ...(100 of 7008 words)

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