An Extinct Branch of Slavic
Some Slavists believe that a separate, now extinct, branch of North Slavic languages once existed, different from both West and East Slavic. The dialect formerly spoken in the vicinity of Novgorod (the so-called Old Novgorod dialect) contains several Proto-Slavic archaisms that did not survive in any other Slavic language, and can in their opinion be considered a remnant of an ancient North Slavic branch.
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