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The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These are separated geographically from speakers of the other two Slavic branches ( West and East) by a belt of German, Hungarian and Romanian speakers.
Jul 2, 2021 · die Grenze. It is thought that the word ‘Grenze’ is derived from the Old Polish ‘granica’, displacing the old German word ‘Mark’ (or, in Old High German, ‘marka’/’marcha ...
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There are transitional dialects that connect the different languages, with the exception of the area where the South Slavs are separated from the other Slavs by the non-Slavic Romanians, Hungarians, and German-speaking Austrians.
The South Slavic languages are geographically divided from the rest of the Slavic languages by areas where Germanic (Austria), Hungarian and Romanian languages prevail. South Slavic standard languages are:
South Slavic languages: Western South Slavic languages. Bosnian: ISO 639-1 code: bs; ISO 639-3 code: bos; Chakavian: ISO 639-3 code: ckm; Croatian: ISO 639-1 code: hr; ISO 639-3 code: hrv; Montenegrin: ISO 639-3 code: cnr; Serbian: ISO 639-1 code: sr; ISO 639-3 code: srp; Slavomolisano: ISO 639-3 code: svm; Slovene: ISO 639-1 code: sl; ISO 639 ...
Slavic languages - Vocabulary, Dialects, Origins: The original vocabulary of general terms common to Baltic and Slavic is still retained in most of the Slavic languages. In prehistoric times Proto-Slavic borrowed a number of important social and religious terms from Iranian (e.g., bogŭ ‘god’ and mirŭ ‘peace’). Later, special terms were borrowed by East Slavic and South Slavic from ...
Oct 23, 2019 · In geographic space (i.e., on the horizontal dimension), the language space in Germany is structured into two principal dialect areas: Low German in the north and High German in the middle and the south of Germany. These two dialect areas can be further subdivided into four basic dialect regions.
