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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“I felt that he, a prisoner in the midst of his enemies and under the sentence of death, if consulted as to his next step or resource, could answer more wisely than all his countrymen beside. He best understood his position; he contemplated it most calmly. Comparatively, all other men, North and South, were beside themselves.”
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