| The separation of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian as distinct languages is relatively recent | |
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Many Ukrainians in fact speak a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian, finding it difficult to keep the two languages apart.
21| 311, "In terms of immediate mutual intelligibility, the East Slavic zone is a single language | |
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| 60: "[The] distinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances | The Future of the Global Muslim Population |
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