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Also Known As Slavonic languages

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Slavic languages: distribution in Europe
Slavic languages' family tree
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Indo-European languages in contemporary Eurasia
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Roman Jakobson
American linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
Pavel Josef Šafařík
Czech philologist
Nikolay Sergeyevich Trubetskoy
Russian linguist

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