North Versus South Slavic
It is sometimes used to combine the West Slavic and the East Slavic languages into one group, as opposed to the South Slavic languages (much like South Germanic combining the West and East Germanic branches). The Southern group was separated from the rest of the Slavic dialects by the Hungarian invasion of the 9th century.
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