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Slav•ic



Pronunciation: (slä'vik, slav'ik), [key]
—n.
a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian), West Slavic (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian), and South Slavic (Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene). Abbr.: Slav

—adj.
of or pertaining to the Slavs or their languages. Also,Slavonic.

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