Common Features
- Slavic languages have a substantial number of palatal and palatalized consonants, often forming pairs with related non-palatalized consonants.
- All Slavic languages are fusional, having a rich morphology largely as a result of conserving the inflectional morphology of Proto-Indo-European.
- Similarly, Slavic languages exhibit extensive morphophonemic alternations in their derivational and inflectional morphology including between velar and postalveolar consonants, front and back vowels, and between a vowel and no vowel.
- In all Slavic languages, most verbs come in pairs with one member having an imperfective aspect and the other having a perfective one.
- Complex consonant clusters as in the Russian word встретить ('to encounter').
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