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This letter does not exist in the oldest (South Slavic) Cyrillic manuscripts, but only in East Slavic ones. It was probably not present in the original Cyrillic alphabet. Called юсъ малый йотированный (iotated little yus) in Russian. Ѯ ѯ: ѯи: ksi ks k͡s [ks] 60 Greek Xi Ξ xi (letter name)
The word Yugoslav, meaning "South Slavic", was first used by Josip Juraj Strossmayer in 1849. The first modern iteration of Yugoslavism was the Illyrian movement in Habsburg Croatia. It identified South Slavs with ancient Illyrians and sought to construct a common language based on the Shtokavian dialect.
Illyrian (South Slavic) Illyrian and Slavic were the commonly used names throughout the Early Modern Period of the Western South Slavic dialects, or, sometimes, of the South Slavic languages as a whole. [1] It was used especially in the territories that are now Croatia during the 19th century. [2]
The West Slavs are Slavic peoples who speak the West Slavic languages. [1] [2] They separated from the common Slavic group around the 7th century, and established independent polities in Central Europe by the 8th to 9th centuries. [1] The West Slavic languages diversified into their historically attested forms over the 10th to 14th centuries.
Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Macedonia. Macedonians (Greeks), the Greek people inhabiting or originating from Macedonia, a geographic and administrative region of Greece. Macedonian Bulgarians, the Bulgarian people from the region of Macedonia.
Among modern languages, Albanian is often conjectured to be a surviving descendant of Illyrian, although this too remains unproven. In the early modern era and up to the 19th century, the term "Illyrian" was also applied to the modern South Slavic language of Dalmatia, today identified as Serbo-Croatian.
This is a list of languages spoken in regions ruled by Balkan countries. With the exception of several Turkic languages, all of them belong to the Indo-European family. A subset of these languages is notable for forming a well-studied sprachbund, a group of languages that have developed some striking structural similarities over time.
