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3 unusual facts about South Slavic languages


Genetic studies on Serbs

An analysis of molecular variance based on Y-chromosomal STRs showed that Slavs can be divided into two groups: one encompassing West Slavs, East Slavs, Slovenes, and western Croats, and the other encompassing Bulgarians, Macedonian Slavs, Serbs, Bosniaks, and northern Croats (the latter five populations are South Slavic speakers).

Goran

In the South Slavic languages, Goran means "woodsman", "the man from the mountains" or "highlander"; the name can also have a metaphorical meaning "tall as a tree", "the big one", "the tall one".

Milan Rešetar

The main areas of his works included dialectology and accentology of South Slavic languages, as well as philologically impeccable editions of 15th to 18th century writers for the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts edition "Stari pisci hrvatski"/Old Croatian Writers".


Šarplaninac

In 1957, at the request of the Yugoslav Canine Federation (JKS), the FCI changed the name to Yugoslav Shepherd Dog-Šarplaninac, after the Šar Mountains (Šar Planina in South Slavic languages) where the breed is most common.


see also

Serbian language

The South Slavic languages all derive their forms from Old Church Slavonic, with Serbian emerging from Old Serbian (Serbian-Slavonic), which has a literary history from the 10th century.