About this title: This work uses linguistic, cultural and historical themes to provide an account of the development of the Slavic languages. The book contends, among other things, that an understanding of early Slavic writing is incomplete outside the context of medieval culture.
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"Has it dawned on you how little you may know about the languages spoken by several hundred million people in Europe and Asia – the Slavs? If so, this is a book to get the basic scholarly information on the emergence of Slavic languages with useful hints at history, early sources, and the rise of the Slavic philology. The book is meant for the linguists, but anyone with some background and interest can understand the basic thrust of the argument.
The reader is warned that the book is uneven, thus the traditional mess concerning the division of the Slavic languages, in particular the question of so-called Southern Slavic is not disentangled, and little attention has been paid to dialects which, in some cases, would be languages on their own if they had an army to support them. The question of the earliest Slavic script, in particular of the Galgolitic (Croatian) is handled somewhat cursorily. Still, even for an educated layman, this is a good introduction but do not take it uncritically. The author is better familiar with one area, less with another – no surprise when one writes a sweeping synthesis."
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