The first section included the Russians and the Bulgarians, the second the Poles, Bohemians, and the Slovenes. After the division of the Churches the Slav nations fell into two sections, those who had been converted from and owed allegiance to Constantinople, and those who stood in a similar position to Rome. Methodius, was sent by the Church at Constantinople, in the ninth century, to convert the Slavs who inhabited the basin of the Danube. Cyril, a native of Salonika, who, with his brother St. The Slav nations employ two different alphabets, the Latin and that known as the Cyrillic, so-called because its author is assumed to have been the Greek missionary St. Of these three languages which form the southern division of the Slavonic languages, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian are very similar both in vocabulary and structure on the other hand, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian, though they contain a large number of words common to both languages, are very dissimilar in grammar. Bulgarian is spoken throughout Bulgaria and in parts of Macedonia by about five millions. Slovene is spoken by about one and a half million people in the Austrian provinces of Istria, Carniola, and Carinthia Serbo-Croatian is spoken throughout the Austrian province of Dalmatia, the Hungarian provinces of Croatia and Slavonia, the joint Austro-Hungarian territories of Bosnia and Hercegovina, in the southern parts of the kingdom of Hungary (known as the Banat and Badka), throughout the kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro and in parts of Macedonia altogether by about nine million people. To the eastern division belongs Russian (Great Russian and Little Russian or Ruthenian) to the western division, Polish, Bohemian, and Lusatian-Wendish (still spoken in parts of Saxony and Prussia) and to the southern division, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian. The Slavonic languages fall into three divisions the eastern, western, and southern. 7 PREFACE THE Slavonic languages form one of the groups of the great family of Indo-European languages, to which most of the other European languages also belong.

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