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Besides numerous instances of contact with non-Slavic languages, Slavic languages and their varieties have been and continue to be in contact with other Slavic languages. Instances of inter-Slavic contact encompass phenomena as different as the century-long diglossic interaction of Church Slavic and Russian, standardization of “smaller” Slavic vernacular languages using linguistic material from “larger,” more established ones, and exclusively spoken hybridization phenomena such as  surzhyk ( suržyk) or  trasjanka that usually have a low sociolinguistic status …