Slavic languages

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Also Known As	Slavonic languages

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Roman Jakobson

American linguist

August Leskien

German linguist

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Josef Dobrovský

Czech scholar

Pavel Josef Šafařík

Czech philologist

Nikolay Sergeyevich Trubetskoy

Russian linguist

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