Page:Halek's Stories and Evensongs.pdf/15



II. South Slavonic is divided into

III. Western Slavonic is divided into

I will not weary the reader by going over in detail the relationship of these languages to one another; suffice it to say that the Czech or Bohemian is most closely related to the Upper Lusatian, the Croatian, and the Little Russian dialects. The Bohemians, like most of the Catholic and Western Slavonians, use the Latin characters, and thus their language forms a good introduction to the study of the rest.

York, 1886