EN
The national identity of Slavic people is founded on their language. Within over a thousand years the Slavs have abandoned their ancient religion, changed their customs, established and lost sovereign states. It is only in language and, connected with it, sign systems that Slavic scholars may see the continuation of Slavic identity from pre-Slavic times to these days. Changes within language - natural to the process of language evolution - allow us to talk about the identity of Slavic people that has lasted since the tenth century until today.