Sentence examples for slavic dialect from inspiring English sources

The Gorani people speak their own South Slavic dialect, akin to BCS and Macedonian.

The earliest circulated literary works were translations from Greek into Old Church Slavonic (a South Slavic dialect that was, in this period, close enough to Old Russian to be understandable).

The Bulgars gradually mixed up with the local population, adopting a common language on the basis of the local Slavic dialect.

In addition, the Ottoman census, taken on the basis of religion, was misquoted by all sides; descent, or "race", was largely conjectural; inhabitants of Macedonia might speak a different language at the market and at home, and the same Slavic dialect might be called Serbian "with Bulgarian influences", Macedonian, or West-Bulgarian.

The nasal vowels ę and ǫ that had developed in Proto-Slavic from older combinations of vowels with nasal consonants (still retained in Baltic) have been preserved only in some Lekhitic languages and in some South Slavic dialects, especially those of Slovene.

Macedonian and the Slavic dialects of Greece are considered dialects of Bulgarian by Bulgarian linguists; not independent languages or dialects of other languages (e.g. Serbian).

According to Serbian scholar Marta Bjeletić, ala and hala stem from the noun xala in Proto-South-Slavic, the dialect of Proto-Slavic from which South Slavic languages emerged (x in xala represents the voiceless velar fricative).

The use of Stokavian, a root dialect for South Slavic languages, has been a flash point for nationalists.

The language sometimes called Rusyn is dismissed as a mere dialect of established Slavic tongues, even by some who speak it.But the Ruthenian cause is stirring.

The earliest Slavic texts, written in a dialect called Old Church Slavonic, date from the 9th century ce, the oldest substantial material in Baltic dates to the end of the 14th century, and the oldest connected texts to the 16th century.

In Karaim, Gagauz, and Uzbek dialects and others, Slavic or Iranian influence has caused harmony to be phonetically differently realized, though harmony is far from lost.