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3 days ago · The proto-Slavic term Slav shares roots with Slavic terms for speech, word, and perhaps was used by early Slavic people themselves to denote other people, who spoke languages similar to theirs. The first written use of the name "Slavs" dates to the 6th century, when the Slavic tribes inhabited a large portion of Central and Eastern Europe .
3 days ago · The Slavs or Slavic peoples are a group of peoples who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southeastern Europe, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states, Northern Asia, and Central Asia, and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...
2 days ago · Proto-Albanian is the ancestral reconstructed language of Albanian, before the Gheg – Tosk dialectal diversification (before c. 600 CE ). [2] Albanoid and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative core in the Balkans after the Indo-European migrations in the region. [3] [4] Whether descendants or sister languages of what was called ...
- c. 1000 BCE – 600 CE
- Proto-Indo-European
- Balkan Peninsula
6 days ago · The Glagolitic script (/ ˌ ɡ l æ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ t ɪ k /, ⰃⰎⰀⰃⰑⰎⰉⰜⰀ, glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by Saint Cyril, a monk from Thessalonica.
- left-to-right
- Glagolitic
2 days ago · Kievan Rus', [a] [b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [c] [7] [8] was a state and later an amalgam of principalities [9] in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [10] The name was coined by Russian historians in the 19th century. Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, [11] [12 ...
3 days ago · The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( Russian: Протоколы сионских мудрецов ), or The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion ( Протоколы собраний ученых сионских мудрецов ), is a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot ...
5 days ago · Contrastive stress, other than corrective stress, seems to be absent in French. "Open from 9 am to 1 pm" would be stressed on the numbers, the contrasting information, in English or German, but in French – like in other Romance or Slavic languages at the very least – it goes de neuf [ˌ]heures à treize [ˈ]heures. Jarek Weckwerth said,
