| 60: "[The] distinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances | |
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| The Languages of the Soviet Union Cambridge |
145—146: "The three East Slavonic languages are very close to one another, with very high rates of mutual intelligibility.
| 311, "In terms of immediate mutual intelligibility, the East Slavic zone is a single language | The separation of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian as distinct languages is relatively recent |
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| Syed Yasir Kazmi October 16, 2009 |