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However, the rise of the internet and globalization has led to a "Latinization" in informal writing. It is common to see young people in Serbia or Ukraine texting in "Latinica" (Latin script) for convenience, even if their official documents remain in Cyrillic.

Further east, in the corner of Romania and parts of Ukraine, the Uralic family appears again with , a recognized minority language that bridges the gap between Slavic and non-Slavic linguistic traits. eastern european language

Heading south into the Balkans, the linguistic map becomes a fractal. Here lives Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin—a cluster of languages that are, linguistically speaking, dialects of the same language (formerly Serbo-Croatian), but separated by religion, politics, and script. A defining feature of the Western Balkans is the phenomenon of "digraphia": in Belgrade, you write in Cyrillic; in Zagreb, you write in Latin. Further east, Bulgarian and Macedonian introduce a unique twist: they have largely lost the complex case systems of their Slavic cousins, simplifying their grammar in exchange for a complex verb system that deals with aspect and mood. However, the rise of the internet and globalization