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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesslave
Pronunciation / Transliteration: slave
"Le russe appartient à la famille des langues slaves."
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A branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Russian, Polish, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian.
"Linguists trace the evolution of Slavic languages from a common ancestral root."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from Modern Latin Sclavus (slave, Slav), from Medieval Greek Sklabos, from the self-designation of the Slavs (Old Church Slavonic slovo 'word', implying those who speak clearly/the same language).
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Slavic" is said worldwide
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slave
Transliteration: slave
"Le russe appartient à la famille des langues slaves."
slawisch
Transliteration: slawisch
"Polnisch ist eine slawische Sprache."
slavo
Transliteration: slavo
"Il ceco è una lingua slava."
eslavo
Transliteration: eslavo
"El ruso pertenece al grupo de lenguas eslavas."
eslavo
Transliteration: eslavo
"O polonês é uma língua eslava."
स्लाव
Transliteration: slaav
"रूसी भाषा स्लाव भाषा परिवार से है।"
斯拉夫语
Transliteration: sīlāfū yǔ
"俄语属于斯拉夫语族。"
슬라브어
Transliteration: seullabeueo
"러시아어는 슬라브어족에 속한다."
スラブ語
Transliteration: suburabu-go
"ロシア語はスラブ語派に属しています。"
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