that have been lost from the modern languages, as well as an absence of words for modern concepts. Hence, early pan-Slavic language projects aimed at modernizing Old Church Slavonic and adapting it to the needs of everyday communication.

Early projects

The first pan-Slavic grammar, Gramatícno izkâzanje ob rúskom jezíku by the Croatian priest Juraj Krizanic, was written in 1665. He referred to the language as Ruski jezik ("Russian language"), but in reality it was mostly based

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