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History. The first South Slavic language to be written (also the first attested Slavic language) was the variety of the Eastern South Slavic spoken in Thessaloniki, now called Old Church Slavonic, in the ninth century.
- South Slavs
South Slavs are Slavic people who speak South Slavic...
- History of the Slavic languages
The history of the Slavic languages stretches over 3000...
- South Slavs
May 17, 2024 · South Slavic languages. (Show more) On the Web: Internet Archive - Introduction to the Phonological History of the Slavic Languages (1991) (May 17, 2024) (Show more) 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 South Slavic languages include Slovene, Serbo-Croatian (known as Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian), Macedonian, and Bulgarian. Slavic languages. In Slavic languages: Languages of the family.
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.
The separate development of South Slavic was caused by a break in the links between the Balkan and the West Slavic groups that resulted from the settling of the Magyars in Hungary during the 10th century and from the Germanization of the Slavic regions of Bavaria and Austria.
