Old Novgorod dialect

Old Novgorod dialect - A criminal case: Novgorod birch-bark letter no. 109. (between end of 11th century and 1110s; excavated 1954) грамота : отъ жизномира : къ микоуле : коупилъ еси : робоу : плъскове : а ныне мя : въ томъ : яла кънягыни : а ныне ся дроужина : по мя пороучила : а ныне ка : посъли къ томоу : мо� ...

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Main article: Novgorod Republic Novgorod is the most ancient Slavic city recorded in Russia. The chronicle first mentions it in 859, when it was already a major station on the trade route from the Baltics to Byzantium. The Varangian name of the city Holmgard (also Holmgarðr, Hólmgarður, Holmgaard, Holmegård) is mentioned in Norse Sagas as existing substantially earlier, but it is impossible to separate the historical facts from the surrounding myth. Later in history, Holmgard referred only ...

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A Birch bark document is a document written on pieces of birch bark. Such documents existed in several cultures. Birch bark document - Russian culture. Russian birch bark writings (Russian: берестяная грамота, berestyanaya gramota) are dated to 11th — 15th centuries. The first one was found on July 26, 1951 during excavations in Novgorod in a layer dated to the 14th-15th century junction. Since then the number of finds is close to 1,000 i ...

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No other Russian or Ukrainian city may compete with Novgorod in the variety and age of its medieval monuments. The foremost among these is the St Sophia Cathedral, built in the 1040s at the behest of Yaroslav the Wise. It is the best preserved of 11th century churches, and the first one to represent original features of Russian architecture (austere stone walls, five helmet-like cupolas). Its frescoes were painted in the 12th century and renovated in the 1860s. The cathedral features famous bronze gates, made in Magdeburg in 1156 and reportedly snatched by Novgorodians from t ...

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Russian birch bark writings (Russian: берестяная грамота, berestyanaya gramota) are dated to 11th — 15th centuries. The first one was found on July 26, 1951 during excavations in Novgorod in a layer dated to the 14th-15th century junction. Since then the number of finds is close to 1,000 in several other historical Russian and other East Slavic towns: Staraya Russa, Smolensk, Torzhok, Pskov, Tver, Moscow, Ryazan, Zvenigorod Volynsky (Ukraine), Vitsebsk (Belarus), Mstislavl (Belarus). These findings considerably changed the understand ...

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Slavic languages - Common roots and ancestry. One can view all Slavic languages as descendants from Proto-Slavic, their parent language. According to some historical linguistics theories, Proto-Slavic in turn developed from the Proto-Balto-Slavic language, a common ancestor of Proto-Baltic, the parent of the Baltic languages. According to this theory, the "Urheimat" of Proto-Balto-Slavic lay in the territories surrounding today's Lithuania at some time after the Indo-European language community had separat ...

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Slavic languages - Common roots and ancestry. One can view all Slavic languages as descendants from Proto-Slavic, their parent language. According to some historical linguistics theories, Proto-Slavic in turn developed from the Proto-Balto-Slavic language, a common ancestor of Proto-Baltic, the parent of the Baltic languages. According to this theory, the "Urheimat" of Proto-Balto-Slavic lay in the territories surrounding today's Lithuania at some time after the Indo-European language community had separat ...

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The Romanian and Hungarian languages witness the influence of the neighboring Slavic nations, especially in the vocabulary pertaining to crafts and trade; the major cultural innovations at times when few long-range cultural contacts took place. Despite a comparable extent of historical proximity, the Germanic languages show no significant Slavic influence, one notable exception being the word for "border", moder ...

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The following tree for the Slavic languages derives from the Ethnologue report for Slavic languages[1]. It includes the SIL, ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 codes where available. ISO 639-2 uses the code sla in a general way for Slavic languages not included in one of the other codes. East Slavic languages: Belarusian (alternatively Belarusan, Belarussian, Belorussian) - (SIL code: bel; ISO 639-1 code: be; ISO 639-2 code: bel) The United States State Department, Ethnologue and the Roset ...

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The Romanian and Hungarian languages witness the influence of the neighboring Slavic nations, especially in the vocabulary pertaining to crafts and trade; the major cultural innovations at times when few long-range cultural contacts took place. Despite a comparable extent of historical proximity, German shows no significant Slavic influence, one notable exception being the word for "border", Grenze, from the Slavic *granĭca. ...

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Scholars divide the Slavic languages into three main branches, some of which feature sub-branches: East Slavic, including Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Rusyn West Slavic, which further subdivide into: Czech and Slovak, Upper and Lower Sorbian (minority languages in Germany), Lechitic languages: Polish, Pomeranian/Kashubian and extinct Polabian. South Slavic, which further subdivide into: Western subgroup composed of Slovenian, Serbian, Croat ...

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The following tree for the Slavic languages derives from the Ethnologue report for Slavic languages[1]. It includes the SIL, ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 codes where available. ISO 639-2 uses the code sla in a general way for Slavic languages not included in one of the other codes. East Slavic languages: Belarusian (alternatively Belarusan, Belarussian, Belorussian) - (SIL code: bel; ISO 639-1 code: be; ISO 639-2 code: bel) The United States State Department, Ethnologue and the Roset ...

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Scholars divide the Slavic languages into three main branches, some of which feature sub-branches: East Slavic, including Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Rusyn West Slavic, which further subdivide into: Czech and Slovak, Upper and Lower Sorbian (minority languages in Germany), Lechitic languages: Polish, Pomeranian/Kashubian and extinct Polabian. South Slavic, which further subdivide into: Western subgroup composed of Slovenian, Serbian, Croat ...

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The short birch-bark texts are written in a peculiar Slavonic vernacular almost entirely free of church influence that has several features not known in any other Slavonic language, e.g.: The nominative singular of o-stem nouns ended in -e (instead of -ъ in all other Slavonic languages), e.g. brate 'brother' (cf. Modern Russian brat). The second palatalization, characteristic of all other Slavic languages (but somewhat blurred by secondary developments in East Slavic) seems not ...

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