Any Slavic language-speaker will have noticed the huge number of German loan words, but there are hardly any slavic-origin words in German. But let's take a look at a few which have stuck in Germans’ ...

Klingon, Elvish, Dothraki, and Nadsat: there are plenty of invented languages used in movies. But one of them, Interslavic, has the potential to be useful to hundreds of millions of people. The ...

Prof. Julia Verkholantsev, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, discussed how St. Jerome — a scholar who came from Dalmatia and lived from the mid 300s to the early 400s — ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ) publishes research studies in all areas of Slavic languages, literatures, and cultures.

Esperanto, the most successful constructed language in world history, was conceived and developed in Poland. But is there any Polish in Esperanto? The idea of Esperanto was first conceived by Ludwik ...

Although the Latin holds the chief place among the liturgical languages in which the Mass is celebrated and the praise of God recited in the Divine Offices, yet the Slavonic language comes next to it ...

Most Polish months don’t sound anything remotely like their English counterparts. What do these ancient Slavic names mean, and what do they tell us about life in Poland, past and present? Like many ...

In 1940, Vladimir Nabokov moved to New York City from Paris and needed a job. He submitted his curriculum vitae to Yale along with three letters of reference, including one penned by Nobel ...