PreslavPreslav, ou Véliki Preslav (« Preslav la Grande ») (en bulgare: Преслав et Велики Преслав) est une cité médiévale de Bulgarie qui fut la seconde capitale du Premier Empire Bulgare (après Pliska) de 893 à 971. Sous le Second Empire Bulgare (1185-1393), si elle fut remplacée comme capitale par Veliko Tarnovo, elle n'en resta pas moins une ville importante. Ses ruines sont situées à 20 km au sud-ouest de la ville de Shoumen et constituent actuellement une Réserve Archéologique Nationale.
Slovene dialectsIn a purely dialectological sense, Slovene dialects (slovenska narečja sloʋènska narét͡ʃja, slovenska narječja slǒʋeːnskaː nǎːrjeːt͡ʃja) are the regionally diverse varieties that evolved from old Slovene, a South Slavic language of which the standardized modern version is Standard Slovene. This also includes several dialects in Croatia, most notably the so-called Western Goran dialect, which is actually Kostel dialect.
MoraviansMoravians (Moravané or colloquially Moraváci, outdated Moravci) are a West Slavic ethnographic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of Czech or Common Czech or a mixed form of both. Along with the Silesians of the Czech Republic, a part of the population to identify ethnically as Moravian has registered in Czech censuses since 1991. The figure has fluctuated and in the 2011 census, 6.01% of the Czech population declared Moravian as their ethnicity.
MasourienThe Masurian ethnolect (Masurian: mazurská gádkä; mazurski; Masurisch), according to some linguists, is a dialect group of the Polish language; others consider Masurian to be a separate language, spoken by the Masurian people in northeastern Poland. From the 14th century, some settlers from Masovia started to settle in southern Prussia, which had been devastated by the crusades of the Teutonic Knights against the native Old Prussians.
Sister languageIn historical linguistics, sister languages are cognate languages; that is, languages that descend from a common ancestral language, their so-called proto-language. Every language in a language family that descends from the same language as the others is a sister to them. A commonly given example is the Romance languages, each of which is a continuation of Vulgar Latin. Italian and French (both Romance languages) have about 89% lexical overlap, meaning 89 percent of words share the same characteristics and root origins.
