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covers the "Slavonic" or Slovenčina+ Slovensko set, part of the "Balto-Slavic" grouping within the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity; comprising 1 set of languages (= 8 outer languages) spoken by communities in eastern Europe and northern Asia, from the Alps to the Bering Sea: 53-A SLOVENČINA+ SLOVENSKO including 2 arterial languages: Russkiy (Russian); Ukrainska (Ukrainian) with Belarusskaya (Belarussian) There is partial intelligibility among most of the Slavonic languages, with Slovenčina (Slovakian) at the geographic "centre-of-gravity" of this linguistic network. There may be more variation among the idioms of Slovensko (Slovenian) than among several of the closely related official national Slavonic languages of some nation-states, such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, for example. |