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The diversity of Slavic languages and varieties

This poster, which is meant to be printed in A0 format, demonstrates the diversity of the Slavic languages by juxtaposing the text of the Marriage at Cana (John 2:1-11) in a total of 38 different Slavic speech forms – in three scripts, six script variants, all the Slavic languages and almost all literary varieties: Old Church Slavonic (Glagolitic and Cyrillic), Church Slavonic (East Slavic recension), Synodal Church Slavonic, Russian, Belarusian (Narkamaŭka, Taraškevica, and Łacinka), West Polesian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, North Rusyn, South Rusyn, Polish (Standard, Silesian, and Podhalian), Kashubian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Czech, Slovak (Standard and Bernolák), Slovenian (Standard, Prekmurian, Styrian, and Resian), Molise Slavic, Croatian (Standard, Kajkavian, Burgenland, Glagolitic, and Cyrillic), Bosnian, Serbian (Ekavian and Ijekavian), Macedonian, and Bulgarian (Standard and Banat).