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  1. 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 ...

  2. The history of the Slavic languages stretches over 3000 years, from the point at which the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language broke up into the modern-day Slavic languages which are today natively spoken in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe as well as parts of North Asia and Central Asia.

  3. Slavic languages are included in the Indo-European language family. They are historically considered to be close to the Baltic languages. The similarity between these two groups—Slavic and Baltic—is reflected in the theory of proto Balto-Slavic language which in the process of development was separated and divided into Proto-Baltic and ...

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  5. Slavic languages - Proto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-European: The separate development of South Slavic was caused by a break in the links between the Balkan and the West Slavic groups that resulted from the settling of the Magyars in Hungary during the 10th century and from the Germanization of the Slavic regions of Bavaria and Austria. Some features common to Slovak and Slovene may have ...

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