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Also Known As Jezyk Polski

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Map of Europe showing the geographic distribution of Slavic languages, color-coded by language group: East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian), West Slavic (Polish, Kashubian, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian), and South Slavic (Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian). Striped areas indicate regions where bilingualism is common.
A family tree diagram showing the evolution of Slavic languages from Common Slavic, branching into West, South, and East Slavic groups, with further divisions into specific languages such as Polish, Czech, Russian, and Bulgarian.
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Maria Dąbrowska
Polish author and critic
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish writer
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Jan Kasprowicz
Polish writer
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Stanisław Staszic
Polish writer
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Jan Andrzej Morsztyn
Polish author and diplomat
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Antoni Lange
Polish writer and translator
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Ambrogio Calepino
Italian lexicographer

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