Cyrillic is one of the most widely used modern alphabetic scripts, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and also for other languages within the former Soviet Union.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

During the Middle Bulgarian period, the language underwent dramatic changes, losing the Slavonic case system, but preserving the rich verb system ( while the development was exactly the opposite in other Slavic languages ) and developing a definite article.

Historical expansion of the usage of Slavic languages in the South and East, and Germanic languages in the West reduced the geographic distribution of Baltic languages to a fraction of the area which they had formerly covered.

They show the closest relationship with the Slavic languages, and have, by most scholars, been reconstructed to a common Proto-Balto-Slavic stage, during which Common Balto-Slavic lexical, phonological, morphological and accentological isoglosses are thought to have developed.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

* The spelling of tsar used in several Slavic languages

Many Slavic languages allow the trill and the lateral as syllabic nuclei ( see Words without vowels ).

Many Slavic and Uralic languages refer to cumin as " Roman caraway ".

In the Germanic and some Slavic languages, the word kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón was adopted instead and derivatives formed thereof.

In Slavic languages, / l, r / as syllabic nuclei are usually the result of the disappearance of,, or ( contrast for example the Russian cognates for vlk and smrt, ' volk ' and ' sm < nowiki >'</ nowiki > ert < nowiki >'</ nowiki >').

In publications of 1647 and 1654, Marcus van Boxhorn first described a rigid methodology for historical linguistic comparisons and proposed the existence of an Indo-European proto-language ( which he called " Scythian ") unrelated to Hebrew, but ancestral to Germanic, Greek, Romance, Persian, Sanskrit, Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages.

Today, all diverse local languages under the Standard German umbrella are collectively referred to as " German dialects ", ( including Slavic, Frisian, Dutch, and Danish ones ) the vast majority of German speakers still believe, they were variations of " original " or even Standard German.

The phonemic inventory is essentially Slavic, as is much of the semantics, while the vocabulary derives primarily from the Romance languages, with a lesser contribution from the Germanic languages and minor contributions from Slavic languages and Greek.

Similarly, Mikhail Lomonosov compared different languages groups of the world including Slavic, Baltic (" Kurlandic "), Iranian (" Medic "), Finnish, Chinese, " Hottentot ", and others.

In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic, Hungarian and Chinese, peninsulas are called " half-islands ".

In Slavic and Chinese traditions, any corpse that was jumped over by an animal, particularly a dog or a cat, was feared to become one of the undead.

Double Metaphone tries to account for myriad irregularities in English of Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and other origin.

Palatalization has played a major role in the history of English in addition to the Uralic, Romance, Slavic, Goidelic, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Twi, Micronesian languages and Indic languages, among many others throughout the world.

There are many exceptions to this general rule: Westerners often insert a third or more names between the given and surnames ; Chinese and Hungarian names have the family name preceding the given name ; females now often retain their maiden names ( their family surname ) or combine, using a hyphen, their maiden name and the surname of their husband ; some East Slavic nations insert the patronym ( a name derived from the given name of the father ) between the given and the family name ; in Iceland the given name is used with the patronym and surnames rarely used.

Mikhail Lomonosov compared numbers and other linguistic features in different languages of the world including Slavic, Baltic (" Kurlandic "), Iranian (" Medic "), Finnish, Chinese, " Hottentot ", and others.

Chinese, Slavic languages, and American Sign Language also exhibit frequent pro-drop features.

Similarly, Scandinavian languages, Baltic languages, Slavic languages and the Chinese language ( qi ) use the words for " breath " to express concepts similar to " the spirit ".

Danilevsky distinguished four categories of historical-cultural activity: religious, political, sociopolitical, and cultural ; these gave rise to ten historical-cultural types: Egyptian, Chinese, Assyro-Babylonian, Jewish, Greek, Roman, Muslim, Slavic, and Romano-German.

The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl -/ birl-(" swamp ").

The name čeština " Czech " is derived from a Slavic tribe of Czechs ( Čech, pl.

Most historians believe that the word " Dagome " is a melding of two names: the Christian " Dago ," for " Dagobert " ( Mieszko's hypothetical baptismal name ), and the Slavic " Me ," for " Mieszko.

In most Slavic languages, the name for Easter either means " Great Day " or " Great Night ".

The name was not coined until many centuries after its creation, and comes from the Old Slavic glagolъ " utterance " ( also the origin of the Slavic name for the letter G ).

As to the source of this ethnonym in the Slavic languages, current literature favors the hypothesis that it comes from the name of the Turkic tribe Onogur ( which means " ten arrows " or " ten tribes ").

The etymology of Rus and its derivatives are debated, and other schools of thought connect the name with Slavic or Iranic roots.

Other variations of the name: Kassubians, Cassubians, or ( sometimes ) Kashubes are a West Slavic ethnic group in Pomerelia, north-central Poland.

This name derives from the Slavic blato meaning ' mud ' or ' swamp ' ( from earlier Proto-Slavic boltьno,, ).

Originally two distinct peoples, Sklavines and Bulgars, the Bulgars assimilated the Slavic language / identity whilst maintaining the Bulgarian demonym and name of the empire.

Another example is town of Bresegard, the ' gard ' portion of the town name derives from the Slavic word ' grad ', meaning city or town.

However, some historians believe that the word " Dagome " is a melding of two names: the Christian " Dago ," for " Dagobert " ( Mieszko's hypothetical baptismal name ), and the Slavic " Me ," for " Mieszko.

Riurik is the Slavic rendering of the same Germanic name as the modern English Roderick, or Spanish and Portuguese Rodrigo.

Slovak (, slovenčina, not to be confused with slovenski jezik or slovenščina, the native name of the Slovene language ), is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages ( together with Czech, Polish, Silesian, Kashubian, and

According to the traditional etymology the Slavic name derives from the Germanic ethnonym Silingi.

A number of earlier inhabitants of Silesia, the Silingi, remained in the region and they concentrated around the Zobten mountain and in a settlement named Niempsch ( derived from a Slavic name for Germans ).

Russian and other Slavic languages have words that begin with, which can be seen in the name of the Dnieper River.

The other name " wolfram " ( or " volfram "), used for example in most European ( especially Germanic and Slavic ) languages, is derived from the mineral wolframite, and this is also the origin of its chemical symbol, W. The name " wolframite " is derived from German " wolf rahm " (" wolf soot " or " wolf cream "), the name given to tungsten by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius in 1747.

The earliest names of Tallinn include Kolyvan () known from East Slavic chronicles, the name possibly deriving from the Estonian mythical hero Kalev.