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Slavic

vr.tr.slavic · INF.MED

Let an agent explain the Slavic language branch and its subgroups, describe shared features and history, present language and dialect status questions neutrally with attribution, and support learning and comparison.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain the Slavic language branch and its subgroups, describe shared features and history, present language and dialect status questions neutrally with attribution, and support learning and comparison.

A branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by about three hundred million people in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and northern Asia, divided into East Slavic languages such as Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian, West Slavic such as Polish, Czech and Slovak, and South Slavic such as Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian and Slovene, with microlanguages and regional varieties such as Lemko and Podlachian; Slavic languages share inflectional grammar and descend from Proto-Slavic, and their classification and status are sometimes politically contested.

What it is for: A branch of Indo-European languages.

It can be explain subgroups; describe shared features and history; present status questions neutrally; support learning.

Distinguishing features

Shared ancestry

Rich inflection and aspect

Cyrillic and Latin scripts

Three subgroups

What it looks like

Not physical; a group of related languages.

How it is recognised

East, West and South Slavic

Descended from Proto-Slavic

Baltic languages are related but separate

Related models

is a kind of - category

Balto-Slavic

is a kind of - category

Indo-European

is related to - the peoples speaking these languages

Slavs

is related to - another Indo-European language entry

Armenian

In practice

Families and kinds

East Slavic languages

West Slavic languages

South Slavic languages

Slavic microlanguages and regional varieties

Old Church Slavonic and historical stages

Standards and regulation

National language standards and academies

Minority language protections

Language classification conventions

Failure modes and hazards

Politicised claims about language versus dialect status

Conflating languages with nationalities

Outdated speaker figures

Also called

Slavic microlanguagesLemkoEast SlavicWest SlavicSouth SlavicPodlachianVichianPannonian RusynLiterary Eastern SlovakLechiticProto-SlavicMiddle Russian languageRuthenianOld NovgorodianBalachkaOld East SlavicWest PolesianSurzhykOld UkrainianTraśankaOld PolishCzech–Slovak languagesLachianMiddle PolishWestern South SlavicEastern South SlavicTorlakMiddle BulgarianŠokacSlavonic-SerbianPannonian SlavicPomeranianWest Lechitic dialectsSlovincianOld Pskov dialectRostov-Suzdal dialectCultural East SlovakCzechoslovakNorthern Opava dialectSlavic dialects in Greece

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand The Slavic branch.

Linguistics.

Subgroups

Subgroups and members.

Subgroups

Subgroups.

  1. What are the East, West and South Slavic subgroups and their languages, and where are they spoken? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific language? action

Features

Shared features.

Features

Features.

  1. Which grammatical and phonological features do Slavic languages share, such as case systems, verbal aspect and palatalisation? definition
  2. How do the subgroups differ? definition
History History and scripts.

Context.

Origins

Proto-Slavic and spread.

Origins

Origins.

  1. What is known about Proto-Slavic and the spread of Slavic languages, according to linguists and historians? provenance
  2. Which findings are contested? boundary

Scripts

Scripts and standardisation.

Scripts

Scripts.

  1. How did Cyrillic and Latin scripts and Old Church Slavonic shape Slavic literacy and standard languages? provenance
  2. Which entry fits Cyrillic script? action
Status Language status questions.

Attribution.

Disputes

Language versus dialect.

Disputes

Disputes.

  1. Where are questions of language versus dialect or microlanguage status, such as for Lemko, Podlachian or the standards of the former Serbo-Croatian area, contested, and what are the attributed positions? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary

Minorities

Minority languages.

Minorities

Minorities.

  1. What protections exist for Slavic minority languages and microlanguages? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific microlanguage? action
Learn Learning and teaching.

Education.

Learning

Learning Slavic languages.

Learning

Learning.

  1. How can someone learn a Slavic language, and how does knowing one help with others? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Teach

Teaching the branch.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can the Slavic branch be taught in linguistics? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each language be linked as a separate entry?
  • How should classification sources be linked?
  • How should status disputes be attributed?
Draft as JSON