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 — ...

Due to increased budget cuts, Harvard’s formal Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian language courses have been removed from the curriculum. The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures’ “E Series”—a ...

Prof. Emeritus Howard “Howie” Aronson, who built the foundation for the University of Chicago to become a major hub for research in Balkan and Caucasian languages, passed away in Chicago on Oct. 26.

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A senior lecturer of Russian and Czech received an excellence in teaching award for expanding Russian and Slavic language ...

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 ...

About 46 million people in the European Union speak languages that are not majority tongues in their countries, ranging from Swedish speakers in Finland to users of Sorbic, a Slavonic language spoken ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The issue of the Ukrainian language and who speaks it has become highly politicised during the Russian invasion. Vladimir Putin ...

When the Moravian Prince Ratislav requested that the Byzantine Emperor Michael III send missionaries to Moravia "to explain to us the Christian truths in our own language," it was the brothers Cyril ...

It is a common misconception among non-Slavic foreigners that Slovaks, Poles, Ukrainians, or Bulgarians, for instance, can understand each other’s languages easily. "Slavic languages are close, ...

When William Morfill died at what is now 42 Park Town, Oxford, on November 9, 1909, he left a remarkable legacy that is probably not fully appreciated. A keen linguist from his schooldays, his ...