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      West Slavic, East Slavic, and South Slavic

      • Until about ad 1000 there was a common Slavic language. Then, because of geographic separation and historical development, the original language diverged into three main branches, each with its own languages. The three branches, which still exist today, are West Slavic, East Slavic, and South Slavic.
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  3. www.britannica.com › topic › Slavic-languagesSlavic languages | List, Definition, Origin, Map, Tree ...

    May 17, 2024 · The Slavic languages, spoken by some 315 million people at the turn of the 21st century, are most closely related to the languages of the Baltic group (Lithuanian, Latvian, and the now-extinct Old Prussian), but they share certain linguistic innovations with the other eastern Indo-European language groups (such as Indo-Iranian and Armenian) as ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Slavic_languagesSlavic languages - Wikipedia

    The current geographical distribution of natively spoken Slavic languages includes the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and all the way from Western Siberia to the Russian Far East. Furthermore, the diasporas of many Slavic peoples have established isolated minorities of speakers of their languages all over the world.

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  6. www.oldest.org › culture › oldest-slavic-languages10 Oldest Slavic Languages - Oldest.org

    • Bulgarian. Year Started: c. 9 CE. No. of Speakers: 5.5 million. Classification: South Slavic. Major Dialects: Eastern groups, Western groups. photo source: The Language Gulper.
    • Macedonian. Year Started: c. 9 CE to 1100s. No. of Speakers: 1.6 million. Classification: South Slavic. Major Dialects: Eastern groups, Western groups. photo source: Wikipedia.
    • Slovenian. Year Started: Between 972 and 1039. No. of Speakers: 2.5 million. Classification: South Slavic. Major Dialects: Gorenjska, Dolenjska, Štajerska, Panonska, Koroška, Primorska, Rovtarska.
    • Polish. Year Started: 1000s. No. of Speakers: Over 50 million. Classification: West Slavic. Major Dialects: Greater Polish, Lesser Polish, Masovian, Silesian.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › History_of_the_Slavic_languagesHistory of the Slavic languages - Wikipedia

    The history of the Slavic languages stretches over 3000 years, from the point at which the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language broke up (c. 1500 BC) into the modern-day Slavic languages which are today natively spoken in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe as well as parts of North Asia and Central Asia.

  8. www.babbel.com › en › magazineAll In The Language Family: The Slavic Languages - Babbel.com

    Mar 30, 2019 · Here’s a brief guide to what the Slavic languages are, where they come from and how similar they all are to each other. What Are The Slavic Languages? Sources mostly agree that there are 20 living Slavic languages. In alphabetical order, they are Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Church Slavonic, Croatian, Czech, Kashubian, Macedonian ...

  9. slavic.fas.harvard.edu › what-are-slavic-languagesWhat are the Slavic Languages? | Department of Slavic ...

    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.