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Classical Languages in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Greece and Russia
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And these would be all old/dead languages in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Greece and Russia that have an important body of written literature of historical interest.

I don't know if Mycenaean Greek really has a lot of "literature" besides various inscriptions, but I have included it anyway for the sake of completeness.


--SOMEWHERE THERE--
Gothic (200-1000 AD)

--BULGARIA--
Middle Bulgarian (1200-1700 AD)

--GREECE--
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And these would be all old/dead languages in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Greece and Russia that have an important body of written literature of historical interest.

I don't know if Mycenaean Greek really has a lot of "literature" besides various inscriptions, but I have included it anyway for the sake of completeness.


--SOMEWHERE THERE--
Gothic (200-1000 AD)

--BULGARIA--
Middle Bulgarian (1200-1700 AD)

--GREECE--
Mycenaean Greek (1600-1200 BC)
Archaic Greek (800-480 BC)
Classical Greek (480-300 BC)
Koine Greek (300 BC-600 AD)
Medieval Greek (600-1500 AD)

--HUNGARY--
Old Hungarian (900-1526 AD)

--LITHUANIA--
Ruthenian (1400-1800 AD)
Old Lithuanian (1500-1700 AD)

--POLAND--
Old Polish (900-1600 AD)
Middle Polish (1600-1800 AD)

--RUSSIA--
Old East Slavic (600-1400 AD)
Old Church Slavonic (800-1100 AD)
New Church Slavonic (1100 AD-)
New Church Slavonic - Old Moscow recension (1100-1650 AD)
Old Russian (1200-1480 AD)
Middle Russian (1480-1700 AD)
New Church Slavonic - Russian recension (1650 AD-)

--SERBIA--
Medieval Serbian (900-1500 AD)


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