A short overview is given of selected (South) Slav language influences on the historical development of the Slovene language. . they are unintentionally born witness to as early as the Middle Ages (1428), while from the 16th century Croatian Kajkavian and Istra-Dalmatian lexemes in the translation of the Bible gloss or replace Carniolan ones. Comparative Slavic research strengthens in the transformational period in the 18th century and develops more rapidly with the growth of Slavic studies in the 19th century. The coming together and combining og languages reaches its peak in the mid-19th century with the Illyrian movement and pan-Slavic tendencies particularly on the Carinthia-Sryria margins, and fades by the end of the century.
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