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Slavonic:

see Slavic languagesSlavic languages,
also called Slavonic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Because the Slavic group of languages seems to be closer to the Baltic group than to any other, some scholars combine the two in a Balto-Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European
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Slavonic

(esp US), Slavic

1. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into three subbranches: South Slavonic (including Old Church Slavonic, Serbo-Croat, Bulgarian, etc.), East Slavonic (including Ukrainian, Russian, etc.), and West Slavonic (including Polish, Czech, Slovak, etc.)

2. the unrecorded ancient language from which all of these languages developed

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It needs to be observed that in many ways these pieces are more about the state of Ukrainian, Ukrainian Canadian, and Slavonic studies than they are about Prymak's own scholarly contributions to the field--thus his major monographs on Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Mykola Kostomarov and on Ukrainian Canadians during World War II are barely mentioned, save in footnotes and in the chapter (13) on the state of scholarship related to Hrushevsky in the early 1980s.

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The orchestra, under veteran conductor Libor Pesek, paid homage to Dvorak starting and finishing with two of his Slavonic Dances.

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The Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra is putting on its spring concert on Mother's Day, next Sunday, which will include classics like Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture, and more unusual pieces such as the Slavonic Dances by Dvorak.

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Archimandrite Joasaph was born in 1962 and raised in the Boston area, wherehe went on to study Slavonic languages and theology.

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Certainly the most ambitious, carefully documented, illustrated, and detailed study in the volume is Badalanova's, on Slavonic creation stories.

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His backers must have been concerned down the back when he traded at a high of 15, as Slavonic Lake (1.3) and Qaasi (pounds 5,800 traded at a low of 2 on Betfair) appeared to be getting away from him.

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