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Proto-Slavic is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all the Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately from the 5th to 9th centuries AD. As with most other proto-languages, no attested writings have been found; scholars have reconstructed the language by applying the comparative method to all the attested Slavic languages and by taking into account other Indo-European languages.
Rapid development of Slavic speech occurred during the Proto-Slavic period, coinciding with the massive expansion of the Slavic-speaking area. Dialectal differentiation occurred early on during this period, but overall linguistic unity and mutual intelligibility continued for several centuries, into the 10th century AD or later. During this period, many sound changes diffused across the entire area, often uniformly. This makes it inconvenient to maintain the traditional definition of a proto-language as the latest reconstructable common ancestor of a language group, with no dialectal differentiation. (This would necessitate treating all pan-Slavic changes after the 6th century AD or so as part of the separate histories of the various daughter languages.) Instead, Slavicists typically handle the entire period of dialectally-differentiated linguistic unity as Common Slavic.
The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) are the Indo-European languages native to the Slavic peoples, originary from Eastern Europe. They are believed to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn would descend from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, connecting the Slavic languages to the Baltic languages as the Balto-Slavic group of the Indo-European family.
The Slavic languages are divided intro three subgroups: East, West and South, which together constitute more than twenty languages. Of these, ten have at least one million speakers and official status as the national languages of their countries: Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian (of the East group), Polish, Czech and Slovak (of the West group) and Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian (of the South group).
The current geographic distribution of natively spoken Slavic languages covers Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Eastern parts of Central Europe and all of the territory of Russia, which includes Northern and Central-North Asia. Furthermore, the diasporas of many Slavic peoples stablished isolated minorities of speakers of their languages all around the globe. According to sources, the number of speakers of all Slavic languages together is around 315 million.
Slav, Slavic or Slavonic may refer to:
Unna ja Nuuk is a Finnish film for the whole family that debuted in Finland on 20 January 2006. Directed by Saara Cantell, its screenplay was written by Joona Tena and Sami Keski-Vähälä. Unna ja Nuuk stars Rosa Salomaa, Toni Leppe, Esko Salminen, Meri Nenonen, Jenni Banerjee, Tommi Korpela, etc.
The movie had a budget of approximately EUR 1.5 million and was produced by Mandart Entertainment Ltd.. The movie was part of the Berlin Film Festival in February 2006.
Old Slavonic may refer to:
This is the oldest preserved text in a Alpine-Pannonian dialect of Old Slavonic (hence some differences between the two texts in the video, the one below being the Macedonian dialect of Old Slavonic, one that Cyril and Methodius used). It is also the oldest text in a Slavic language written with the Roman alphabet. The text is a translation of the Saint Emmeram's prayer, the original being in Old High German. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Emmeram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freising... http://nl.ijs.si/e-zrc/bs/index-en.html NOTE: There was no such thing as Slovenians back in the 9-10th century. The ancestors of the modern Slovenians were part of the bigger Slavic regional groups that were not very differentiated, and certainly not differentiated along such ethnic lines that exist to...
Visit https://www.LingQ.com My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ My Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lingosteve My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lingosteve Follow "Steve's Cafe" Channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/SteveKaufmann Transcript: Hi there, Steve Kaufmann. I decided to move outside for this video. I can’t see very well here squinting with the sun in my eyes. Hopefully, this works out; I’ll have a look later on. Slavic Languages -- My experience in learning to various degrees of fluency four different Slavic languages. I’m going to talk a little bit longer than my recent three-four minutes videos, so those who aren’t interested or don’t like the longer videos can turn off the video right now. One thing I should say, too, to me these videos are a form of sitting around a cof...
► Learn a Slavic language with a native speaker today: http://go.italki.com/1Ojye8x (italki voucher) This video is all about the Slavic Language family, one of Europe`s major language families. This was a hard video to make, because I wasn`t very familiar with Slavic languages, and I had a lot of trouble with the production of the video (for various reasons). But hopefully the end result is good! I definitely learned a lot making this video, and gained a deeper interest in Slavic languages and cultures! Support Langfocus on Patreon: http://patreon.com/langfocus http://facebook.com/langfocus http://twitter.com/langfocus http://instagram.com/langfocus http://langfocus.com Drums of the Deep by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons....
The history of Proto-Slavic is the linguistic history of the Proto-Slavic language, the hypothetical ancestor of the modern-day Slavic languages, as it developed from the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language , which is the parent language of the Balto-Slavic languages .The first 2,000 years or so consist of the pre-Slavic era, a long period during which none of the later dialectal differences between Slavic languages had yet happened.The last stage in which the language remained without internal differences that later characterize different Slavic languages can be dated around 500 AD and is sometimes termed Proto-Slavic proper or Early Proto-Slavic.Following this is the Common Slavic period , during which the first dialectal differences appeared but the entire Slavic-speaking area continu...
By about 1500 BC, the area of land which now corresponds with southeastern Poland, northeastern Ukraine, southern Belarus, and southwestern Russia became home of the early Slavic tribes, which are commonly known as the Proto-Slavs. Studies and excavations of this area of land, that could be called the 'Slavic Cradle', prove that the present day Slavs are the descendants of these tribes. The Proto-Slavic tribes dwelt in their homeland for many centuries, speaking one common language; which in time would produce the modern Slavic languages of today as well as extinct languages. Taking in all of the history of all the peoples of Europe, I am committed in my belief (and many others are), based on factual historical evidence and observation, that the physical appearance of the Slavs are very...
http://makedon.eu - The language of the ancient Macedonians & Thracians was an proto-slavic language. You can see it very clearly in comparison with Sanskrit one of the oldest known languages with the modern serbian language which is a modern slavic language.
Examples of spoken Early Proto-Finnic from the film Unna ja Nuuk (Finland, 2006). Subtitles in EPF, modern Finnish and English. The events take place in the stone age 4000 years ago. I don't have the script of the film, so I had to make educated guesses about the EPF forms at places. Unna ja Nuuk -elokuvassa puhuttua varhaiskantasuomea tekstitettynä varhaiskantasuomeksi, nykysuomeksi ja englanniksi. Tapahtumat sijoittuvat kivikaudelle 4000 vuoden taakse. Minulla ei ole elokuvan käsikirjoitusta, joten jouduin vähän arvailemaan.