WebGoalpariya is a group of Indo-Aryan dialects spoken in the Goalpara region of Assam, India.Along with Kamrupi, they form the western group of Assamese dialects. The North Bengali dialect is situated to its west, amidst a number of Tibeto-Burman speech communities. The basic characteristic of the Goalpariya is that it is a composite one into …

WebThe East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of the Slavic languages, distinct from the West and South Slavic languages.East Slavic languages are currently spoken natively throughout Eastern Europe, and eastwards to Siberia and the Russian Far East.In part due to the large historical influence of the Russian Empire and …

WebKyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River.As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyiv is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center in Eastern Europe.It is home to many high-tech …

WebThe former two German-language sources particularly emphasize the dual role of the creature as both blood-drinker and incubus/succubus. ... It is likely that either Old Church Slavonic or the protolanguage Proto-Slavic is intended. As with νοσοφόρος, this supposed Slavonic word does not appear to be attested in primary sources, which severely …

WebThe Anatolians were Indo-European-speaking peoples of the Anatolian Peninsula in present-day Turkey, identified by their use of the Anatolian languages. These peoples were among the oldest Indo-European ethnolinguistic groups and one of the most archaic, because Anatolians were among the first Indo-European peoples to separate from the …

WebCyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries.For their work evangelizing the Slavs, they are known as the "Apostles to the Slavs".. They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic. After their deaths, …

WebThe Pannonian Avars (/ ˈ æ v ɑːr z /) were an alliance of several groups of Eurasian nomads of various origins. The peoples were also known as the Obri in chronicles of Rus, the Abaroi or Varchonitai (Greek: Βαρχονίτες, romanized: Varchonítes), or Pseudo-Avars in Byzantine sources, and the Apar (Old Turkic: 𐰯𐰺) to the Göktürks (Kultegin Inscription: …