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Indo-European Languages - LoveToKnow 1911 (8440 words) |
 | The Indo-European (I.E.) languages are a family of kindred dialects spread over a large part of Europe, and of Asia as far as India. |
| The Slavonic languages proper themselves fall into two groups: (a) an Eastern and Southern group, including Old Bulgarian, the ecclesiastical language first known from the latter part of the 9th century A.D.; Russian in its varieties of Great Russian, White Russian and Little Russian or Ruthenian; and Servian and Slovene, which extend to the Adriatic. |
| Till the latter part of the 18th century it was the universal practice to refer all languages ultimately to a Hebrew origin, because Hebrew, being the language of the Bible, was assumed, with reference to the early chapters of Genesis, to be the original language. |
| Belarusian language: Information from Answers.com (6011 words) |
| That the (Old) Belarusian language was the direct evolvement from the Proto-Slavonic phase, with the earlier material evidences of this dated early 13th century. |
| The Belarusian, in its vernacular form, was the language of the smaller town dwellers and of the peasantry. |
| The reform was to simplify the grammar of the Belarusian language. |
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