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History of the Slavic languages. 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 Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC. The most important of the ancient languages was Latin, the official language of ancient Rome, which conquered the other Italic peoples before the common era. [1]
Bulgarians. Bulgarians are a South Slavic [4] [5] [6] people from southeast Europe. There are around 7.3 million Bulgarian nationals. [7] The Bulgarians speak the Bulgarian language and most of them live in Bulgaria. There is also a large diaspora of Bulgarians in Germany, Ukraine, Spain, UK and USA .
Sprachbund. A sprachbund ( / ˈsprɑːkbʊnd /; German: Sprachbund [ˈʃpʁaːxbʊnt] ⓘ, lit. "language federation"), also known as a linguistic area, area of linguistic convergence, or diffusion area, is a group of languages that share areal features resulting from geographical proximity and language contact. The languages may be genetically ...
Slavic microlanguages are literary linguistic varieties that exist alongside the better-known Slavic languages of historically prominent nations. The term " literary microlanguages" was coined by Aleksandr Dulichenko in late 1970s; it subsequently became a standard term in Slavistics. [citation needed] Slavic microlanguages exist both as ...
The West Slavic languages are a subdivision of the Slavic language group. [1] They include Polish, Czech, Slovak, Kashubian, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian. [1] The languages have traditionally been spoken across a mostly continuous region encompassing the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, [1] the westernmost regions of Ukraine and Belarus ...
Old East Slavic (traditionally also ... Ukrainian: давньоруська мова) was a language used during the 10th–15th centuries by East Slavs in Kievan Rus
