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Slavic languages

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/slavic-languages

Step 2 · Questions

  1. 1. What is the language family?

  2. 2. What is the estimated speaker population?

  3. 3. How many main branches of Slavic languages are there and which languages belong to each?

  4. 4. Why do some Slavic languages use the Cyrillic alphabet while others use the Latin alphabet?

Step 3 · Words to know

Write what each word means, using the article.

  • Proto-Slavic

  • Linguistic Divergence

  • Cyrillic Alphabet

  • Inflectional System

Step 4 · Two facts in your own words

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

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