Slavic, Slav or Slavonic may refer to:
Peoples
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Slavic peoples
Slavs are the largest European ethnolinguistic group. They speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout ...
, an ethno-linguistic group living in Europe and Asia
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East Slavic peoples, eastern group of Slavic peoples
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South Slavic peoples, southern group of Slavic peoples
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West Slavic peoples, western group of Slavic peoples
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Slavic Americans, Americans of Slavic descent
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Anti-Slavic sentiment
Anti-Slavic sentiment, also known as Slavophobia, a form of racism or xenophobia, refers to various negative attitudes towards Slavic peoples, the most common manifestation is the claim that the inhabitants of Slavic nations are inferior to other ...
, negative attitude towards Slavic peoples
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Pan-Slavic movement, movement in favor of Slavic cooperation and unity
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Slavic studies, a multidisciplinary field of studies focused on history and culture of Slavic peoples
Languages, alphabets, and names
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Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavs, Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic language, Proto ...
, a group of closely related Indo-European languages
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Proto-Slavic language
Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately from the 2nd millennium B.C. through the 6th ...
, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages
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Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic literary language.
Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with standardizing the language and using it in translating the Bible and other ...
, 9th century Slavic literary language, used for the purpose of evangelizing the Slavic peoples
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Church Slavonic, a written and spoken variant of Old Church Slavonic, standardized and widely adopted by Slavs in the Middle Ages, and became a liturgical language in many Eastern Orthodox churches
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Pan-Slavic language, artificially created languages intended to serve as a lingua franca for all Slavic peoples
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East Slavic languages
The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of the Slavic languages, distinct from the West and South Slavic languages. East Slavic languages are currently spoken natively throughout Eastern Europe, and eastwards to Sib ...
, modern languages of East Slavic peoples
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South Slavic languages
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 ...
, modern languages of South Slavic peoples
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West Slavic languages, modern languages of West Slavic peoples
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Slavic names, names originating from the Slavic languages
Mythology and faith
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Slavic mythology
Slavic mythology or Slavic religion is the Religion, religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation of the Slavs, Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century. The So ...
, the mythological aspect of the polytheistic religion that was practised by the Slavs before Christianisation
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Slavic dragon, mythological creature in ancient Slavic culture
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Slavic Native Faith
The Slavic Native Faith, commonly known as Rodnovery
* bg, Родноверие, translit=Rоdnoverie
* bs, Rodnovjerje
* mk, Родноверие, translit=Rodnoverie
* cz, Rodnověří
* hr, Rodnovjerje
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, modern form of ancient Slavic polytheism
Places
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Slav (village), a former Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip
Other
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Slav Defense
The Slav Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves:
:1. d4 d5
:2. c4 c6
The Slav is one of the primary defenses to the Queen's Gambit. Although it was analyzed as early as 1590, it was not until the 1920s that it started to be ...
, a chess opening
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Slavic calendar, traditional Slavic calendar
See also
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Slavonian (disambiguation) Slavonian may refer to:
* something of, or related to Slavonia
* Slavonian dialect
Shtokavian or Štokavian (; sh-Latn, štokavski / sh-Cyrl, italics=no, штокавски, ) is the prestige dialect of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian langua ...
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Slavyansky (disambiguation)
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