Slavic Languages
In Slavic languages, the alveolar trill predominates, with the uvular rhotic generally seen as a defective pronunciation. An exception are the languages of the Sorbian minority in Saxony, eastern Germany, which are typically spoken with a uvular trill rhotic due to German influence. The uvular rhotic may also be found in a small minority in Silesia and other German-influenced regions of Poland and also Slovenia, but is overall quite rare even in these regions. It can also be perceived as an ethnic marker of Jewishness, particularly in Russian where Eastern European Jews often carried the uvular rhotic from their native Yiddish into their pronunciation of Russian.
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... See also History of the Russian language The modern phonological system of Russian is inherited from Common Slavonic, but underwent considerable innovation in the early ... Like all Slavic languages, Old Russian was a language of open syllables ... in the Cyrillic alphabet with yuses), which had developed from Common Slavic *eN and *oN before a consonant, were replaced with nonnasalized vowels, possibly iotated ...
... In South Slavic the vowel and the liquid metathesize, and as a side-effect the vowel lengthens (*e > *ē > ě, *a > *ā > a) *al > la *ar > ra *el > lě *er > rě Compare PSl ... ('path'), English milk as opposed to the metathesized South Slavic RVC structure ... just like in South Slavic), and in the rest of West and East Slavic languages only when the syllable is under acute (rising) accent compare Proto-Slavic *a̋r ...
... and *g (< PIE *g, *gʰ, *gʷ, *gʷʰ) change before the Proto-Slavic diphthong *aj/āj (< PIE *oy, *h₂ey/ay), which itself must have become *ē by the time the second palatalization started to occur *k > *t ... the palatalization of *x is dependent upon chronology and the Slavic dialect in question In East and South Slavic it's /s/, and in West Slavic languages it's /š/ ... Slovak tends to go with South Slavic in such instances, e.g ...
... The following tree for the Slavic languages derives from the Ethnologue report for Slavic languages ... East Slavic languages Ruthenian section Belarusian (alternatively Belarusan, Belarussian, Belorussian) ISO 639-1 code be ISO 639-3 code bel Ukrainian ISO 639-1 code uk ISO ... Churches in Croatia continue to use Church Slavonic as a liturgical language ...
... or digraphs, but few of these are used in Slavic languages ... In a context of Old Slavonic language, ⟨шт⟩ is a digraph that can replace a letter ⟨щ⟩ and vice versa ... Modern Slavic languages written in the Cyrillic alphabet make little or no use of digraphs ...
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