Prof. Emeritus Howard “Howie” Aronson, who built the foundation for the University of Chicago to become a major hub for research in Balkan and Caucasian languages, passed away in Chicago on Oct. 26.

Modern Russian contains centuries of vocabulary borrowed from Turkic, Persian, Latin and other languages. Here is what ...

Idalia Fedotova, researcher at HSE University and the RAS Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, examined lexical differences across Khanty dialects and found that members of this relatively ...

Having familiarized myself with several foreign languages such as English, Italian, and German, I had a certain amount of ...

A senior lecturer of Russian and Czech received an excellence in teaching award for expanding Russian and Slavic language education. The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European ...

Any Slavic language-speaker will have noticed the huge number of German loan words, but there are hardly any slavic-origin words in German. But let's take a look at a few which have stuck in Germans’ ...

Is Old Slavonic a direct ancestor of the Russian language? What are its origins and who spoke it? We debunk all the myths that you might frequently meet in Slavophile internet sources and discussions.

The Department administers undergraduate majors in Linguistics, Russian, and Slavic Studies, as well as minors in Arabic Studies, Chinese, Linguistics, Russian, and East European Studies. Students may ...

Klingon, Elvish, Dothraki, and Nadsat: there are plenty of invented languages used in movies. But one of them, Interslavic, has the potential to be useful to hundreds of millions of people. The ...

If you’ve ever been to a traditional Greek celebration, you will have seen people joining hands and dancing in a circle following the same steps to the accompaniment of live music. You will also have ...

For decades, Barnard’s Slavic department has cultivated generations of scholars in Eastern European languages, literatures, and cultures. Since 2023, John Wright, GSAS ’05, GSAS ’08, GSAS ’11, the ...