Slavic
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- noun
- /ˈslævɪk/
:
lengua eslava
- She decided to major in Slavic studies to better understand the literature and culture of Eastern Europe.
Examples
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Slavic contributed a chapter in Library and Information Science in the Digital Age: Essays in Honor of M.P. Satija in which she details the history of shelving and call number evolution for bibliographic collections in Europe.
Academic text (2012) -
This expression appears also in Russian as kula, in Polish as kumm, and in Yiddish as kurve and has its roots in the Slavic for chicken.
Fiction book (2002) -
Moravians had traditionally described their speech as Moravian or Slavic, rather than Czech.
Academic text (1996) -
Most Czechs in Texas described their ethnicity as Czech or Czecho-Slavic.
Academic text (1996) -
Of these twenty thousand words, approximately 70 percent are of Germanic derivation, 20 percent are Hebrew, 10 percent are from the Slavic, and the remaining handful are derived from Romance languages or are modern borrowings from English (the word televizie, for example, meaning television).
Academic text (2000) -
American Indian/Alaska Native, 4.2% Hispanic, 1.5% Asian/Pacific Islander, 0.7% African American, and 82% White (with 12% first-generation Slavic).
Academic text (2013) -
My grandmother taught me some basic phrases in Slavic languages like Russian and Polish.
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At the cultural festival, I learned about the history of the Slavic languages and their diverse speakers.
Synonyms
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4.6
A language that is part of the group including Russian, Polish, and Czech
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8.9
A group of related languages like Russian, Polish and Czech spoken in Eastern Europe and northern Asia
A group of related languages spoken in Eastern Europe and parts of Asia, including Russian, Polish and Czech
Compounds
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4.4
People who speak languages like Russian, Polish or Bulgarian, mainly in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
- Literature
A literary Slavic language that Orthodox churches use for worship and Bible translation
- Literature
A Slavic language used in Orthodox church services, based on Old Church Slavonic from the 9th century
- Specialized
A group of languages that includes Slavic ones like Russian and Baltic ones like Lithuanian
- Specialized
A group of related languages that includes Russian and Lithuanian
- Literature
An old written Slavic language used to translate the Bible for early Christians in the ninth century
Surface Forms
Etymology
The noun Slavic for the language group also comes from the root slovo 'word', a name for people who shared a language, so Slavic languages are the related tongues those people spoke, like Russian and Polish.