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May 17, 2024 · Slavic languages, group of Indo-European languages spoken in most of eastern Europe, much of the Balkans, parts of central Europe, and the northern part of Asia.
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants.
The Slavic languages belong to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. Present-day Slavs are classified into three groups: the West Slavs (chiefly Czechs, Kashubians, Poles, Slovaks, Silesians and Sorbs); the East Slavs (chiefly Belarusians, Russians, Rusyns, and Ukrainians);
Key to these peoples and cultures are the Slavic languages: Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian to the east; Polish, Czech, and Slovak to the west; and Slovenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian to the south.
14 LANGUAGES - SLAVONIC EUROPE. THE BODY – Diversity and togetherness between Slavonic people around the globe based on language and culture. Never before a common platform has been created for all Slavs in Europe and around the world to join their forces and gather under the roof of CULTURE.
An estimated 315 million people speak of Slavic languages, the largest groups being Russian (c. 110 million in European Russia and adjacent parts of Eastern Europe, Russian forming the largest linguistic community in Europe), Polish (c. 40.6 million), Ukrainian (c. 33 million), Serbo-Croatian (c. 21 million), Czech (c. 12 million), Bulgarian (c ...
